Wayback Machine Downloader

So this exists: https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

In case anyone wanted an easier way to scrape through posts that have been lost.

Looks neat, but I don't speak computer code. How's it work?

I'll try if I get a chance.

And...? How does it work?

About as well as the online version, but if you wanted, you could grep all the text. The problem is mainly that it's hard to get a list of just topics that actually have content rather than empty links.

Per this thread I am trying to download everything before 2007. Over 3300 items, looks like some of them actually have content.

Although it should be fun placing them in time--they all show relative dates ("2 days ago") on the pages themselves and then timestamps in the code (I think).

Oh, yeah, they do. Some threads in particular were manually fed into the Wayback machine by at least one poster here, in order that they'd never be lost to the world.

God, I'd give Dayton's left nut to retrieve the Meka thread.

Downloaded. Some funnies.

Do you know when the database loss occurred? I assume it was sometime after 2007, so maybe I should expand the time parameters.

It was shortly after New Years of 2007.

Are we on the verge of undoing the Great Forgetting?

So much juicy lulz!

Finally, content for @The Flashlight to download and neg rep for when he doesn't have a wi-fi signal.

I wrote a script to develop an index page. Here are the contents. Now, I'm not super keen on putting these on an identifiable server, but I can zip up the HTML and send it to an admin to scan and share--or just post the zip here and you can download at your own risk.

Wayback Wordforge

7zip file. Extract and open index.html.

If you regurgitate the right one we might even get threads from the first week of Wordforge's exsistence!

Wow, found a post of mine from back in 2005. A good chunk of the documentary evidence that I exist is stored in this board's database.