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I did think about doing this a while ago. Downloading all the forum pages
would actually be relatively easy. Getting it into a state that would be
searchable, and so of use, is a bit tougher, and basically it fell down my
list of priorities.
Tim
…On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 at 00:11, pakricard ***@***.***> wrote:
Thanks to @dalers <https://github.com/dalers>, he found
https://web.archive.org/web/20201025015925/http://www.weberp.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=8169
to help with a discussion.
Some links are dead-ends, but some are working.
I also found https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.weberp.org/forum/*
that contains more than 10.000 URL related to the forum.
Someone could crawl these links and try to rebuild (somehow) the forum?
It's greatly missed.
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I've thought about this too, perhaps using HTTrack to download web pages from the internet archive and a unix shell script to extract text and images from the pages and create new topics in the GitHub project Discussions. However, the more I think through the details the less "relatively easy" it seems. I think I would also have to dig into phpBB to understand how posts, topics and replies are referenced using the API/URL in order to follow, extract and re-create threads. My feeling is the same as @timschofield, there is higher priority work to do (a PHP8.1 compatible v5 release with no significant issues) and while a re-created forum could provide reasons why something was done some way, the work to re-create the forum would be significant and most of the recovered content would not directly benefit a v5 release. However, I would certainly welcome someone taking the initiative to do the work, and I'd happily help if I can. |
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I just wrote a bash script to download the threads. It worked fine, but
then quite quickly their web server blocked me. I assume they block
attempts to use scripts to download en masse. It's possible that if you put
a random delay between attempts you might be able to fool the system, but I
don't know that it's worth the effort.
I was angry that the forum was deleted without taking a backup, but I think
we just have to move on. That's why I wanted to use the GitHub discussions,
so nobody can just delete the knowledge that the community freely gives.
Thanks
Tim
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I've thought about this too, perhaps using HTTrack
<https://www.httrack.com/> to download web pages from the internet
archive and a unix shell script to extract text and images from the pages
and create new forum posts. However, the more I think through the details
the less "relatively easy" it seems. I think I would also have to dig into
phpBB to understand how posts, topics and replies are referenced using the
API/URL in order to follow, extract and re-create threads.
My feeling is the same as @timschofield <https://github.com/timschofield>,
there is higher priority work to do (a PHP8.1 compatible v5 release with no
significant issues) and while a re-created forum could provide reasons why
something was done some way, the work to re-create the forum would be
significant and most of the recovered content would not directly benefit a
v5 release. However, I would certainly welcome someone taking the
initiative to do the work, and I'd happily help if I can.
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Makes sense. At least we can go there if we are lost and manually try to recover some info. |
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Thanks to @dalers, he found https://web.archive.org/web/20201025015925/http://www.weberp.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=8169 to help with a discussion.
Some links are dead-ends, but some are working
Examples:
I also found https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.weberp.org/forum/* that contains more than 10.000 URL related to the forum.
Someone could crawl these links and try to rebuild (somehow) the forum? It's greatly missed.
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