#archiveteam 2012-09-28,Fri

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07:16 🔗 Dr-Flay Your site still lists Filefront as no longer at risk, but it is disapearing rapidly
07:18 🔗 Dr-Flay 16 admins and no one paying attention :(
07:22 🔗 Dr-Flay For anyone else trying to get files from Filefront/Gamefront. Even though you can no longer browse it, Google can still find the actual DL pages
07:24 🔗 Dr-Flay I really hope you had started archiving FileFront, as it is a bit late for the older files, but plenty of newer stuff can still be found
07:36 🔗 Dr-Flay For those who want an archive retrieval browser plugin, I can recommend the "Webcache" extension for Opera browser https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/webcache/
09:26 🔗 Dr-Flay Still no admin awake ?
09:51 🔗 alard Dr-Flay: Hi. I don't know if the wiki signup is still down, but if you can get an account you can change it yourself.
09:51 🔗 alard If not, there'll probably be someone here later.
09:52 🔗 alard In the meantime, do you have any scripting experience that you could use to help? There's always a few things to investigate: how many files are there, is there a list, how to download them?
09:53 🔗 alard URL structures, what kind of files are there, are they worth saving etc.?
12:04 🔗 Dr-Flay Sorry @alard, now I'm just as guilty! It occurs to me that the makers of the free downloader "MiPony" may be able to help.
12:05 🔗 Dr-Flay They add sites that use pain-in-the-ass front-ends
12:05 🔗 Dr-Flay on request
12:06 🔗 Dr-Flay I got them to add File/GameFront a while ago
12:07 🔗 Dr-Flay I was going to ask them about adding Fileplanet to it's recognised sites, but as they were closing it, I thought it was pointless
12:35 🔗 Dr-Flay I have a friend who is an excellent programmer with plenty of html experience, I'll ask him to have a look at your site and see if he can spare some time.
12:43 🔗 Dr-Flay As I said earlier Google can still see the pages that still exist in Filefront, even though they have removed the navigation html for the old stuff. Searching filefront with Google for a recognisable term still works. You can then access the actual DL page, but some of the file are now gone.
12:51 🔗 Dr-Flay Here is an example I just checked. I searched for "filefront ut2k4" and chose http://www.gamefront.com/files/12531958/battlestargalacticacylonsv2_ut2k4_zip This is still there, but if you navigate up through the folders it will say nothing exists :( LIARS !
12:53 🔗 Dr-Flay MiPony will download from that link I gave you. MiPony also checks and shows if a file can be found at the end of the link
12:55 🔗 Dr-Flay I really think the makers of MiPony are very likely to be able to help, with mass downloading.
12:55 🔗 Dr-Flay Gotta go now will, check back tonight
15:16 🔗 alard I'm not sure, but I think his problem with File/GameFront is this: http://www.gamefront.com/file-hosting-faq/ They delete files that haven't been downloaded in 60 days, or 7 days for anonymous uploads.
15:17 🔗 alard It also seems that you can just guess walk the numeric file IDs, e.g., http://www.gamefront.com/files/files/21677000/
15:20 🔗 alard If we're going after this, it would need constant updating since the site is not dead.
15:23 🔗 alard Also: large files. And is this actually something that could be interesting to put on archive.org? (I'm not a gamer, so I can't judge the value of these files. Are they pirated versions? User-built add-ons?)
15:47 🔗 underscor alard: they're mods and things. user generated addons, etc
15:47 🔗 underscor It would be a good "always busy" project for the workers
15:47 🔗 underscor (maybe?)
15:48 🔗 alard Yes. That could be something.
16:11 🔗 DFJustin or an auto-ingestion thing for jason
22:52 🔗 dashcloud hi folks, I'm not really sure how to archive touchatag.com and since the site is going down on the 30th (http://touchatag.net/eol/) , any help would be appreciated
23:49 🔗 NC_Law_St hey. i need someone to help me find comprehensive 2010-12 e-books on NC Bar prep (it has to be NC specific). I will pay 0.60 bitcoins for this. PM me or email me: lawstudent@tormail.org if you can help
23:50 🔗 chronomex fuckin spammers
23:50 🔗 chronomex like what the fuck

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