# Wayback Reel (wayback-to-reel)

> Minimalist archival web studio that pulls one Wayback Machine snapshot per archived year for any website URL and encodes an H.264 `.mp4` time-lapse reel in the browser using FFmpeg WebAssembly (`@ffmpeg/ffmpeg`).

- Live URL: https://h3manth.com/fun/wayback-to-reel/
- Source: https://github.com/hemanth/wayback-to-reel
- Author: Hemanth HM (https://h3manth.com)

## Capabilities
- **Yearly Wayback Discovery (`GET ./api/timeline?url={domain}`)**: Queries the Internet Archive CDX index collapsed by 4-digit year (`collapse=timestamp:4`, `filter=statuscode:200`, `filter=mimetype:text/html`) with Sparkline + Availability API fallback.
- **Banner-Free Historical Capture (`GET ./api/snapshot?timestamp={YYYYMMDDhhmmss}&url={originalUrl}`)**: Renders clean `1280x800` snapshots from Wayback `if_` raw archive URLs (`web.archive.org/web/{timestamp}if_/{url}`) with disk caching.
- **Client-Side MP4 Mastering (`ffmpeg.wasm`)**: Composites `1280x720` archival browser-card frames on `<canvas>` with cubic cross-dissolves and runs `libx264` (`-pix_fmt yuv420p -movflags +faststart`) locally in WebAssembly.
- **URL Deep-Linking**: Open `https://h3manth.com/fun/wayback-to-reel/?url=info.cern.ch` to launch directly into any domain's timeline.
- **WebMCP**: Exposes `create_wayback_video` and `get_wayback_timeline` on `navigator.modelContext`.

## Discovery & Machine Specs
- Full LLM Spec: https://h3manth.com/fun/wayback-to-reel/llms-full.txt
- OpenAPI 3.1 Spec: https://h3manth.com/fun/wayback-to-reel/openapi.json
- API Catalog (RFC 9727): https://h3manth.com/fun/wayback-to-reel/.well-known/api-catalog
- A2A Agent Card: https://h3manth.com/fun/wayback-to-reel/.well-known/agent-card.json
- MCP Server Card: https://h3manth.com/fun/wayback-to-reel/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
- Agent Skills Index: https://h3manth.com/fun/wayback-to-reel/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
- Auth Policy: https://h3manth.com/fun/wayback-to-reel/auth.md