Kepfeltoltes.hu
Kepfeltoltes.hu | |
URL | http://kepfeltoltes.hu[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Some saved (see below) |
Archiving type | Unknown |
IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
Kepfeltoltes.hu is probably the most popular one-click image sharing service in Hungary. Since its start in 2004, it has hosted millions of images. However, the maintainers delete old pictures after an uncertain amount of time.
Vital signs
Technical issues
One can enter an email address and receive information about what they uploaded. This function doesn't seem to be working properly.
Some users have been complaining about the speed and availability of the site, but the writer of these lines hasn't experienced such problems yet.
Administrator activity
No signs on the site, but it is not necessary anyway, it runs on its own. The last message on Facebook was about a technical problem one year ago.
Financial status
Operated by ETSz Kft., it has a webhosting service tarhelyem.hu. Seems okay, but the company has just took a big loan, so we should keep an eye on it.
Site structure
Users can select files (up to 20) from their computers and upload them very easily. Then they get the URLs of their pictures, which they can insert to forums, chats or anywhere. Uploaders can decide whether their pictures shall be public, that is, appear on the list of pictures recently uploaded by users (http://kepfeltoltes.hu/public.php?ok=ok&btn_tovabb=Tov%E1bb; NSFW alert!).
Image page URLs are all unique, they are like the following: http://kepfeltoltes.hu/view/YYMMDD/FILENAME_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.EXT, where YYMMDD is the date in this format, FILENAME is the name of the original file, EXT is the file extension (jpg/jpeg, png and gif files are accepted). The actual image URLs are like http://kepfeltoltes.hu/YYMMDD/FILENAME_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.EXT, but those are, of course, linked from the image pages. What is not linked is the thumbnail version: http://kepfeltoltes.hu/thumb/YYMMDD/FILENAME_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.EXT
The way the URL is generated prevents others to find the images not made public. Thus, in the following, we talk about public pictures only.
The site lists the last 6000 uploaded public pictures on http://kepfeltoltes.hu/public.php?ok=ok&btn_tovabb=Tov%E1bb. There is no index for older pictures, and, as seen above, they can't be efficiently discovered with brute force.
Content
Although some percent of the image corpus is NSFW content, most of the files are screenshots and photos of objects and people.
Data growth
The number of public pictures grows by 3 to 5 thousand a day; more are uploaded at weekends than at weekdays.
Data deletion
There is no certain information about the image deletion mechanism used by the maintainers. Some people say that pictures may be deleted after some months, however, some testing shows that several years old pictures are still up. It is also said that staff removes users' uploaded pictures on request (uploader can optionally enter their email address when uploading). What is for sure that all images uploaded before July 2010 seem to be gone (as of December 2014).
So it's unknown when and what, but they regularly delete some older pictures to free up space.
Archiving
From 2014-11-12, user:bzc6p exports a daily index of uploaded pictures. (The last day's image URLs can be parsed from the list of last uploaded images, see above.) He doesn't download them yet, though, but focuses on other image hosting services – kepfeltoltes.hu seems to be the most reliable of them (the least chance to disappear, and they delete old ones only after some years). However, the index lets us download all the public pictures at any time if it becomes necessary.
Though, he does save older images discovered on the internet, see below.
Older pictures
One can't find pictures with the site:kepfeltoltes.hu
Google search term. One must search for kepfeltoltes links inserted into websites, and copy-paste the links from there, or, write a script that parses them out automatically.
Problem is that Google doesn't show all the results. Not at all. It seems that it leaves out some big websites that have a ton of these links. However, if search is done only for those sites (with site:
), they are found.
This has been done for several major Hungarian sites, but of course, the list can't ever be complete.
Processing the discovery results and downloading the discovered images is in progress.
Archives
Images from before 2014-11-12, what could be discovered: https://archive.org/details/kepfeltoltes_hu_pre20141112.