How to Download The Earliest Archive of A Website for Each Year

[HanXiaoZhong]

Dear developers and peers,

On the Wayback Machine, I notice that some websites have multiple archives in a single year.

I want to download the earliest archive in each year for each website. Suppose website www.helpcenter.com was saved in Jan. 24, Mar. 12, Sep. 30, and Nov. 1 in 2008. How to build a function so that wayback-machine-downloader automatically find the copy in Jan.24 and download it for me? I have many websites to download, so I want to know how to automate this process.

Thanks!

[OmegaAOL]

I don't think they offer an API so you will have to script a "brute forcer" that aggressively pings the server to find the first timestamp in a year.