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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# to check whether a url has been archived by archivebot
+import sys
+import requests
+from urllib.parse import quote
+
+url_to_query = sys.argv[1]
+url = "https://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=" + quote(url_to_query, safe="")
+
+headers = {
+    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:142.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/142.0"
+}
+
+response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=15)
+
+if "No search results" in response.text:
+    print("No search results")
+else:
+    print("Search results found")
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