Info for coding test

background_info.py

### Sample wayback timestamp url: http://web.archive.org/web/20141214092900/http://www.coinbase.com/about

URLS = [
    {"url": "http://www.coinbase.com/about", "parser": "coinbase"}
]

class WaybackConstants:
    TIMEMAP_BASE_URL = "http://web.archive.org/web/timemap/json/{0}"
    WAYBACK_DATETIME_FORMAT = "%Y%m%d%H%M%S"
    WAYBACK_DIRECT_URL = "http://web.archive.org/web/{timestamp}/{target_url}"

def get_data_for_wayback_timemap(url=None, parser=None):
    assert url is not None
    assert parser is not None
    
    timemap = requests.get(WaybackConstants.TIMEMAP_BASE_URL.format(url))
    wayback_snapshots = json.loads(timemap.content)

    waybacks_iterator = iter(wayback_snapshots)
    next(waybacks_iterator)

    wayback_history = []

    for wayback_record in waybacks_iterator:
        ### BEGIN HERE
        
if __name__ == '__main__':
    for url in URLS:
        get_data_for_wayback_timemap(url["url"], url["parser"])

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