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Are you sure that you can download metadata? Favorites, lists, posts, reviews, collections, and web archives? I don't think it's possible. Even saving the HTML

Are you sure that you can download metadata? Favorites, lists, posts, reviews, collections, and web archives? I don't think it's possible. Even saving the HTML of the page is tricky because the site renders the content using JavaScript. Of course you can download your own uploads, but it's likely you have them in your local backups already if you uploaded them?

hcs 2y ago
> Of course you can download your own uploads, but it's likely you have them in your local backups already as you uploaded them? Sadly many do not keep copies, so it is worth the PSA. IA is not a substitute for backups, at best it is one more backup location. I try to treat it as a way of publishing what would otherwise be stuck in some free upload service waiting to auto-expire.
- msephton 2y ago
  Right, but the issue in the OP is that it's the data other than the uploads that has been deleted and not being restored.
toomuchtodo 2y ago
https://github.com/Ghosty-Tongue/IA-Account-Backup https://github.com/Ghosty-Tongue/IA-Account-Backup appears to support bulk downloading items associated with a user account. More to come in this regard.
- msephton 2y ago
  Interestingly, this was created as a reaction to the data loss. A small silver lining, I suppose.
- nosamu 2y ago
  I took a look at this script and you can do the same thing it does with the ia command line tool (`pip install internetarchive` is the easiest way to get it) ia download --search uploader:youremail@example.com
nosamu 2y ago
I found that it's possible to download an account's Web Archives list as a json file, for example: https://archive.org/download/@brewster/@brewster_web-archive.json https://archive.org/download/@brewster/@brewster_web-archive... User accounts have other json files such as _mylists.json, but they are access-restricted and cannot be downloaded, unfortunately.
- msephton 2y ago
  That's seems to be an index, but there's no content? How does it map to content? For example, how can I see the tweet or website from those points in time?
  - deleted 2y ago
    [deleted]
  - toomuchtodo 2y ago
    https://web.archive.org/ https://web.archive.org/
    - msephton 2y ago
      That's good! I can confirm that this JSON does not exist for the deleted account, so it would need restoring from their backup.

hcs 2y ago

> Of course you can download your own uploads, but it's likely you have them in your local backups already as you uploaded them? Sadly many do not keep copies, so it is worth the PSA. IA is not a substitute for backups, at best it is one more backup location. I try to treat it as a way of publishing what would otherwise be stuck in some free upload service waiting to auto-expire.

msephton 2y ago
Right, but the issue in the OP is that it's the data other than the uploads that has been deleted and not being restored.

toomuchtodo 2y ago

https://github.com/Ghosty-Tongue/IA-Account-Backup https://github.com/Ghosty-Tongue/IA-Account-Backup appears to support bulk downloading items associated with a user account. More to come in this regard.

msephton 2y ago
Interestingly, this was created as a reaction to the data loss. A small silver lining, I suppose.
nosamu 2y ago
I took a look at this script and you can do the same thing it does with the ia command line tool (`pip install internetarchive` is the easiest way to get it) ia download --search uploader:youremail@example.com

nosamu 2y ago

I found that it's possible to download an account's Web Archives list as a json file, for example: https://archive.org/download/@brewster/@brewster_web-archive.json https://archive.org/download/@brewster/@brewster_web-archive... User accounts have other json files such as _mylists.json, but they are access-restricted and cannot be downloaded, unfortunately.

msephton 2y ago
That's seems to be an index, but there's no content? How does it map to content? For example, how can I see the tweet or website from those points in time?
- deleted 2y ago
  [deleted]
- toomuchtodo 2y ago
  https://web.archive.org/ https://web.archive.org/
  - msephton 2y ago
    That's good! I can confirm that this JSON does not exist for the deleted account, so it would need restoring from their backup.