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4 years ago, Archive Team backed up "nearly all" of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here https://archive.org/details/a

by sp332 5y ago

4 years ago, Archive Team backed up "nearly all" of Vidme (according to Jason Scott). It was uploaded to the Internet Archive here https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_vidme https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_vidme so you can fix your vid.me URLs by pointing them to the Archive. (And you can help keep them there, too https://archive.org/donate https://archive.org/donate But honestly, using the Archive more keeps the bigger donors involved, so don't feel guilty or anything. Just use the Archive!)

ibaikov 5y ago
Oh that's clever, I totally forgot about this. Archive is amazing.
- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  Not all public goods are flashy, but most are necessary.
swiley 5y ago
That really is an amazing organization.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
  There should be more than one archive.org Why not. Is it really impossible I read a significant percentage of HN submissions through archive.org. Saves me DNS lookups. Recent pages look exactly the same to me as their "live" versions, the retrieval time is rarely bad.^1 Its probably the best "CDN" as it has the largest amount and variety of content There should be more than one archive.org (and more than one ArchiveTeam). These projects work and they are standing the test of time. archive.org is older than Google. Much, much older in "internet time". 1. I use a text-only browser though so not sure how tolerable it would through Javascript-enabled graphical browser
Scoundreller 5y ago
So uhhhh, anyone want to write the recursive replacement regex that'll do that across an entire filesystem?
- lallysingh 5y ago
  find | xargs awk?
  - toomuchtodo 5y ago
    Wikipedia has a bot that the Internet Archive collaborated on [1], where rotten links are updated to point to the Internet Archive and new links are queued for retrieval [2]. There should probably be a similar effort for CMS systems like Wordpress and such. The code to do this is semi trivial. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InternetArchiveBot https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InternetArchiveBot [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot
    - sp332 5y ago
      But the links here haven't rotted, in that they will not return a 404 or whatever. They will still load videos, it will just be replaced with porn. So you need more code to detect all vidme links as something to fall back to the Archive for.
      - toomuchtodo 5y ago
        In a sense, all of the links for the domain in question have rotted, and must be replaced. To your point, your code could replace wholesale based on the domain.
danso 5y ago
The search results counter is 12,385...is that really all (or "nearly all") of what Vid.me had for content? I mean I know it failed at dethroning Youtube, but 12,000+ videos is barely anything.
- boomboomsubban 5y ago
  That's roughly one hour of new uploads on YouTube as of 2016.
  - mixmastamyk 5y ago
    Like everything, a great majority are junk and/or niche.
- oxguy3 5y ago
  It looks like each of those 12,385 items is a big 10.4GB archive of thousands of videos.
- tech234a 5y ago
  That is the number of megawarc items. Each one of these items contains many videos.
Scoundreller 5y ago
weird flex, but I needed to get over a threshold to 'earn' a credit card promo for spending enough, and a donation here will do it! (It's too bad the tax deduction isn't eligible in Canada :( )
- alexjplant 5y ago
  I have the opposite problem... I give money to OpenBSD but can't claim it on my taxes since they're Canadian :-(.
  - darrylb42 5y ago
    Are they a registered non-profit now? I donated when I used OpenBSD but don't think I got a tax receipt, just my name on one of the releases.
    - Scoundreller 5y ago
      Was hoping there was maybe opportunity for corresponding donations that maximizes deductions. Looks like openBSD isn't deductible either for Canadian donoUrs. Theo's registered address has lots of cool wifi links though. I count 4! (one is on the gutter) https://www.google.com/maps/place/812+23+Ave+SE,+Calgary,+AB+T2G+1N4/@51.0329538,-114.0427806,3a,15y,335.4h,101.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scQQgVrRZwyl9ALzXSHrvLg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x53717009e91678d5:0x551c163042cb0356!8m2!3d51.0331412!4d-114.0428972 https://www.google.com/maps/place/812+23+Ave+SE,+Calgary,+AB...
Causality1 5y ago
I wish they'd been doing that when Google Video shut down. Lost a lot of good content I didn't download.
- tech234a 5y ago
  They did: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Google_Video https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Google_Video
  - Causality1 5y ago
    I think I'm not understanding something. I believe https://archive.org/details/googlevideo2011 https://archive.org/details/googlevideo2011 is supposed to be the videos they downloaded but I'm not getting any results no matter what search term I put in. Is there a searchable archive of Google Video content?
- sp332 5y ago
  I helped download a few gigs of Google Video at the time, so I know some of it is up there.
  - sp332 5y ago
    Late edit: never mind, that was Yahoo video.

by sp332 5y ago

ibaikov 5y ago

Oh that's clever, I totally forgot about this. Archive is amazing.

toomuchtodo 5y ago
Not all public goods are flashy, but most are necessary.

swiley 5y ago

That really is an amazing organization.

1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago
There should be more than one archive.org Why not. Is it really impossible I read a significant percentage of HN submissions through archive.org. Saves me DNS lookups. Recent pages look exactly the same to me as their "live" versions, the retrieval time is rarely bad.^1 Its probably the best "CDN" as it has the largest amount and variety of content There should be more than one archive.org (and more than one ArchiveTeam). These projects work and they are standing the test of time. archive.org is older than Google. Much, much older in "internet time". 1. I use a text-only browser though so not sure how tolerable it would through Javascript-enabled graphical browser

Scoundreller 5y ago

So uhhhh, anyone want to write the recursive replacement regex that'll do that across an entire filesystem?

lallysingh 5y ago
find | xargs awk?
- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  Wikipedia has a bot that the Internet Archive collaborated on [1], where rotten links are updated to point to the Internet Archive and new links are queued for retrieval [2]. There should probably be a similar effort for CMS systems like Wordpress and such. The code to do this is semi trivial. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InternetArchiveBot https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/InternetArchiveBot [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot
  - sp332 5y ago
    But the links here haven't rotted, in that they will not return a 404 or whatever. They will still load videos, it will just be replaced with porn. So you need more code to detect all vidme links as something to fall back to the Archive for.
    - toomuchtodo 5y ago
      In a sense, all of the links for the domain in question have rotted, and must be replaced. To your point, your code could replace wholesale based on the domain.

danso 5y ago

The search results counter is 12,385...is that really all (or "nearly all") of what Vid.me had for content? I mean I know it failed at dethroning Youtube, but 12,000+ videos is barely anything.

boomboomsubban 5y ago
That's roughly one hour of new uploads on YouTube as of 2016.
- mixmastamyk 5y ago
  Like everything, a great majority are junk and/or niche.
oxguy3 5y ago
It looks like each of those 12,385 items is a big 10.4GB archive of thousands of videos.
tech234a 5y ago
That is the number of megawarc items. Each one of these items contains many videos.

Scoundreller 5y ago

weird flex, but I needed to get over a threshold to 'earn' a credit card promo for spending enough, and a donation here will do it! (It's too bad the tax deduction isn't eligible in Canada :( )

alexjplant 5y ago
I have the opposite problem... I give money to OpenBSD but can't claim it on my taxes since they're Canadian :-(.
- darrylb42 5y ago
  Are they a registered non-profit now? I donated when I used OpenBSD but don't think I got a tax receipt, just my name on one of the releases.
  - Scoundreller 5y ago
    Was hoping there was maybe opportunity for corresponding donations that maximizes deductions. Looks like openBSD isn't deductible either for Canadian donoUrs. Theo's registered address has lots of cool wifi links though. I count 4! (one is on the gutter) https://www.google.com/maps/place/812+23+Ave+SE,+Calgary,+AB+T2G+1N4/@51.0329538,-114.0427806,3a,15y,335.4h,101.03t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1scQQgVrRZwyl9ALzXSHrvLg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x53717009e91678d5:0x551c163042cb0356!8m2!3d51.0331412!4d-114.0428972 https://www.google.com/maps/place/812+23+Ave+SE,+Calgary,+AB...

Causality1 5y ago

I wish they'd been doing that when Google Video shut down. Lost a lot of good content I didn't download.

tech234a 5y ago
They did: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Google_Video https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Google_Video
- Causality1 5y ago
  I think I'm not understanding something. I believe https://archive.org/details/googlevideo2011 https://archive.org/details/googlevideo2011 is supposed to be the videos they downloaded but I'm not getting any results no matter what search term I put in. Is there a searchable archive of Google Video content?
sp332 5y ago
I helped download a few gigs of Google Video at the time, so I know some of it is up there.
- sp332 5y ago
  Late edit: never mind, that was Yahoo video.