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Terrible, terrible information architecture. Love the idea, but it's sooo hard to find your way around that site.

gwu78 10y ago
Blogger.com blogs such as this one ("programminggroundup") can be obtained in a single file containing all posts. Text or minimal HTML file. No gratuitous Javascript and no comment spam. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6845367 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6845367 Simple, portable shell script. Not perfect, but it still works. ^M means Ctrl-V,Ctrl-M in ed/ex/vi #!/bin/sh # requirements: # netcat # openssl # sed # optional: strings # optional: addcr type strings 2>&1 >/dev/null || strings(){ sed ;} type addcr 2>&1 >/dev/null || addcr(){ sed ;} [ $# -gt 0 ]||exec echo usage: $0 nameofblog { printf "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n"; printf "Host: $1.blogspot.com\r\n"; printf "Connection: Close\r\n"; printf "\r\n"; } \ |exec nc -vv www.blogger.com 80 \ |exec sed ' s/\\046/\&/g; s/\\46/\&/g; s/\\075/=/g; s/\\75/=/g; /targetBlogID/!d; s/.*targetBlogID=//; s/&.*//; ' |exec sed 1q \ |while read a do { printf "%b" "GET /feeds/$a/posts/default HTTP/1.1\r\n"; printf "Host: www.blogger.com\r\n"; printf "Connection: Close\r\n"; printf "\r\n"; } done \ |openssl s_client -ign_eof -connect \ www.blogger.com:443 -verify 9 \ |exec addcr \ |{ echo sed ' s/</</g; s/>/>/g; s/&/\&/g; s/"/\"/g; 1i\ s/<name>/ name &/g; s/<uri>/ uri &/g; s/<generator>/ generator &/g; s/Blogger//; s/<id>/ id &/g; s/<published>/ published &/g; s/<email>/ email &/g; s/<title type=.text.>/ &/g; s/<openSearch:totalResults>/ total results &/g; s/<openSearch:startIndex>/ start index &/g; s/<openSearch:itemsPerPage>/ items per page &/g; s/<updated>/ updated &/g; s/<thr:total>/ thr:total &/g; s/<\/feed>/& /; s/^M*/ /; ' \ |strings }

gwu78 10y ago

Blogger.com blogs such as this one ("programminggroundup") can be obtained in a single file containing all posts. Text or minimal HTML file. No gratuitous Javascript and no comment spam. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6845367 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6845367 Simple, portable shell script. Not perfect, but it still works. ^M means Ctrl-V,Ctrl-M in ed/ex/vi #!/bin/sh # requirements: # netcat # openssl # sed # optional: strings # optional: addcr type strings 2>&1 >/dev/null || strings(){ sed ;} type addcr 2>&1 >/dev/null || addcr(){ sed ;} [ $# -gt 0 ]||exec echo usage: $0 nameofblog { printf "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n"; printf "Host: $1.blogspot.com\r\n"; printf "Connection: Close\r\n"; printf "\r\n"; } \ |exec nc -vv www.blogger.com 80 \ |exec sed ' s/\\046/\&/g; s/\\46/\&/g; s/\\075/=/g; s/\\75/=/g; /targetBlogID/!d; s/.*targetBlogID=//; s/&.*//; ' |exec sed 1q \ |while read a do { printf "%b" "GET /feeds/$a/posts/default HTTP/1.1\r\n"; printf "Host: www.blogger.com\r\n"; printf "Connection: Close\r\n"; printf "\r\n"; } done \ |openssl s_client -ign_eof -connect \ www.blogger.com:443 -verify 9 \ |exec addcr \ |{ echo sed ' s/</</g; s/>/>/g; s/&/\&/g; s/"/\"/g; 1i\ s/<name>/ name &/g; s/<uri>/ uri &/g; s/<generator>/ generator &/g; s/Blogger//; s/<id>/ id &/g; s/<published>/ published &/g; s/<email>/ email &/g; s/<title type=.text.>/ &/g; s/<openSearch:totalResults>/ total results &/g; s/<openSearch:startIndex>/ start index &/g; s/<openSearch:itemsPerPage>/ items per page &/g; s/<updated>/ updated &/g; s/<thr:total>/ thr:total &/g; s/<\/feed>/& /; s/^M*/ /; ' \ |strings }