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There's a lot of great content on Google+. Is anyone working on a script to archive some of it before it all goes away? Perhaps the fine folks at the Internet A
by svat 8y ago
There's a lot of great content on Google+. Is anyone working on a script to archive some of it before it all goes away? Perhaps the fine folks at the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)?
Specifically, I'm wondering if someone's working on a script that does the following:
- Ideally for each post URL given, it would preserve the post, and the comments (including the first few ones, not just the last few ones that are shown by default). It would be nice if it also preserves the +1s (including who +1d them), but that's optional.
- And given a user, it would do the above for each (public) post of the user, or (optionally) use your account to save (just for yourself) the posts that you can see.
There were a lot of people posting great stuff on G+ and resulting in wonderful thoughtful conversations (especially a couple of years ago), it would be shame to lose all that permanently.
(If someone doubts this: see e.g. (if you're interested in mathematics) the posts by https://plus.google.com/+TerenceTao27 https://plus.google.com/+TerenceTao27 https://plus.google.com/+TimothyGowers0 https://plus.google.com/+TimothyGowers0 https://plus.google.com/+johncbaez999 https://plus.google.com/+johncbaez999 etc, or https://plus.google.com/+DanPiponi https://plus.google.com/+DanPiponi for more CS-y stuff, or for more "general" stuff https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger etc -- and for all these people, especially in 2015-2016 or so.)
Edit: You can download your own content using Google Takeout https://takeout.google.com https://takeout.google.com. Just learnt of these other places where this question has been asked / is being asked: this G+ community (https://plus.google.com/communities/112164273001338979772 https://plus.google.com/communities/112164273001338979772) and this wiki (https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page) -- if you have any answers those may be good places to post too :-)
- pmlnr 8y ago> Is anyone working on a script to archive some of it before it all goes away? Perhaps the fine folks at the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)? The archivist in me is screaming that yes, of course it should be archived. The web-old-timer in me just shakes his head that people never learn to keep a copy of their content on the actual free - as in freedom - web, on their own website. Let it be a mere text file, uploaded by ftp, or a WordPress, or anything, just do it. Nobody should expect others to archive it for them. (For more on the topic, see http://indieweb.org/why http://indieweb.org/why ). Back on topic: talk to https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page .