A time-travel tool for web admins and IT security people.

The idea behind this tool is explained on the article "Abusing the Past", originally published on 2600 Magazine, Volume 32, Issue One. You can read an online version here: http://blogs.buanzo.com.ar/2015/05/abusing-the-past-a-2600-article-published-volume-32-number-one.html The first release of WebLorean was in November, 2015: http://blogs.buanzo.com.ar/2015/11/weblorean-the-abusing-the-past-script.html

For Ekoparty 2017, where WebLorean is set to be presented at Ekolabs, this git release is made available.

First, you need to clone the weblorean repository, or download it (github provides the necessary options at https://github.com/buanzo/weblorean).

cd /usr/local/src
git clone https://github.com/buanzo/weblorean

WebLorean was developed and tested on Ubuntu Desktop 16.04 and 17.04. From the Ubuntu repositories only python3-selenium and chromium-chromedriver will be installed. The rest of the required python 3 modules (make sure you use pip3, which you can get via sudo apt install python3-pip) can be installed off requirements.txt, so, basically, under Ubuntu, run this:

cd /usr/local/src/weblorean
sudo apt install chromium-chromedriver python3-selenium xvfb python3-pip -y
sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt

If you know what you are doing, you can install selenium and chromedriver off PIP as well, but you might need to tweak WebLorean source and/or specify special command line arguments. Selenium is, by itself, sometimes a bit delicate.

Make sure you source fix_environment.sh if you are running Ubuntu!

cd weblorean
./weblorean.py http://www.example.org

If you are using Ubuntu under Windows 10 / WSL, you can run all non-SELENIUM based methods. I dont think xvfb+pyvirtualdisplay are still WSL compatible, although chromium DOES work. YMMV.