Apple Daily

Apple Daily
URL	https://hk.appledaily.com/ https://tw.appledaily.com/
Status	Offline (site) Online! (social media)
Archiving status	Partially saved (site) In progress... (social media)
Archiving type	ArchiveBot, other
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Apple Daily was the name of two mostly-independent newspapers owned by Next Digital, one in Hong Kong and one in Taiwan.

The Hong Kong paper was critical of the Chinese government and thus always under pressure. In June 2021, its headquarters were raided (again) by Hong Kong Police, and several key people were arrested, putting its future once again in doubt. Apple Daily said that their assets were seized and with no way to pay their staff, Apple Daily was likely to collapse in the coming days. Mid-day (UTC) 21 June 2021, the newspaper announced^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} that it was likely to shut down soon. At 23:59 HKT (UTC+8) on 23 June 2021, Apple Daily's website was replaced by a shutdown message.

For similar at-risk sites, see Hong Kong media.

The Taiwan paper, a joint venture between Next Digital (the sole owner of the Hong Kong newspaper) and Taiwanese companies, announced^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} on 31 August 2022 that it would stop updating due to 'a lack of working capital', but that a successor publication under new ownership, Next Apple News, would begin operating on 1 September. The sale has attracted controversy due to allegations of the new owners' financial links to China and potential misuse of personal data.

Apple Daily Hong Kong

Main website (now defunct): https://hk.appledaily.com/^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}.

Main site

• Partially saved through recursive crawl with ArchiveBot started on 2021-06-17: job:2u3qbx8mpv42jxi76wq27fbb2
• Article pages listed in the sitemaps Saved! through URLs on 2021-06-21 (no images etc.)
  • URLs extracted from the sitemaps by rewby: https://transfer.archivete.am/fzhO1/sorted_urls.txt
  • Sitemap URLs: https://transfer.archivete.am/14ZEQ8/sitemaps.txt
  • Scraper: https://github.com/rewbycraft/sitemap-enumerator
• Videos (M3U8 and TS segments) from article pages extracted by User:Jodizzle in several parts:
  • Part 1 Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-22: https://transfer.archivete.am/15b9yl/hk.appledaily.com-m3u8s-expanded.1.txt and job:atm5u7fjmgegw508c90ty32wi
  • Part 2 Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-22/23: https://transfer.archivete.am/RZHFJ/hk.appledaily.com-m3u8s-expanded.2.txt and job:183qpki4h8e40cswj2035wqmf
  • Part 3 Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-23: https://transfer.archivete.am/OIkBX/hk.appledaily.com-m3u8s-expanded.3.txt and job:5ue8wjnyg1gbg1g7x420b5gpg
  • Part 4 Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-23: https://transfer.archivete.am/CKU9J/hk.appledaily.com-m3u8s-expanded.4.txt and job:91rs9mykjwyxmj5vekc8ol1qf
  • Part 5 Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-23: https://transfer.archivete.am/11wYuN/hk.appledaily.com-m3u8s-expanded.5.txt and job:cxp0gi0dive8hio7t156y9o3r
  • Part 6 Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-24: https://transfer.archivete.am/otOy9/hk.appledaily.com-m3u8s-expanded.6.txt and job:9ljog0j9hmnldeezf0stom0e5
  • Part 7 Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-25: https://transfer.archivete.am/fWFn3/hk.appledaily.com-m3u8s-expanded.7.txt and job:aq23fh1ps9z41xpr0w9wavrap
  • Part 8 Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-25: https://transfer.archivete.am/BGWhY/hk.appledaily.com-m3u8s-expanded.8.txt and job:avevbq0gi0aatbvkczlnpwj05
• Videos (MP4s) from article pages extracted by User:Jodizzle:
  • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-25/26: https://transfer.archivete.am/9uBqJ/hk.appledaily.com-mp4s.1.txt and job:6nvm0nm0fhhefw3te98sf89mt
• Videos (MP4s) from the /archive/YYYYMMDD/ daily digests retrieved from the CDN host on 2021-06-23 and extracted by User:JustAnotherArchivist:
  • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-24/25: https://transfer.archivete.am/HJ9do/hk.appledaily.com-archive-mp4s-0 and job:egb2fhxs2id0eifu6h0hxml4j
  • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-24/25: https://transfer.archivete.am/5CTJr/hk.appledaily.com-archive-mp4s-1 and job:3ttbxwgfrs6sylmf2gf0s5ln0
  • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-24/25: https://transfer.archivete.am/Y8RPU/hk.appledaily.com-archive-mp4s-2 and job:3uv4cein0hoxevwnp8syf47al
  • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-24/25: https://transfer.archivete.am/O6wZq/hk.appledaily.com-archive-mp4s-3 and job:aszu95klth25apfk6ds195fse
  • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-24/25: https://transfer.archivete.am/6l0rk/hk.appledaily.com-archive-mp4s-4 and job:26tzgb9lvusg1xqkf2tpu33cz
  • All videos (including M3U8) from that retrieval with a bit of extra info: https://transfer.archivete.am/IJGRu/hk.appledaily.com-archive-videos.zst
    • M3U8s + TS segments not present in jodizzle's M3U8s part 1 through 8:
      • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.notkiska.pw/GtmmC/hk.appledaily.com-archive-m3u8s.1.txt and job:bp57iwrotlupgd7ce2fqtny4l (Note: This list does contain the TS segments, even though the filename lacks the '-expanded' term.)
        • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-29: https://transfer.archivete.am/13w5i3/hk.appledaily.com-archive-hd.m3u8s and job:2q9fyohs6x0spikra93irji3c, containing the top-level 'hd.m3u8' URLs accidentally left out of job:bp57iwrotlupgd7ce2fqtny4l.
• Videos from dav3's video list that aren't in the lists above (jodizzle M3U8 part 1 through 8, jodizzle MP4, JAA parts 0 through 4):
  • Original list: https://transfer.archivete.am/rtGCF/hk%20appledaily%20video%20data%202014-2021.zip (rehosted from https://mega.nz/file/UgNU2DTD#mycIn1NqzWHEHhnPi2q45cM7PqiGyzHRC-Aw_OPUI0g)
  • Filtered: https://transfer.archivete.am/4O5K7/hk.appledaily.com-dav3-video-urls-filtered.zst
  • MP4s Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-25: https://transfer.archivete.am/6J3RF/hk.appledaily.com-dav3-mp4s-filtered and job:2b40d56koxillrhd8ibox0fs
  • M3U8s + TS segments Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.notkiska.pw/PbHyb/hk.appledaily.com-dav3-m3u8s-filtered-expanded and job:p60jidwl73jsjlxh30ki5sv9
    • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-29: https://transfer.archivete.am/GnFAl/hk.appledaily.com-dav3-m3u8s-filtered and job:l9gobcqcm9saq3e1aynbhfsx, containing the 'hd.m3u8' URLs accidentally left out of job:p60jidwl73jsjlxh30ki5sv9.
  • Fixed file for part of that list: https://transfer.archivete.am/14x3GF/video_data_2014-2018_V2.zip (rehosted from https://mega.nz/file/V18g3B6b#JXAAje1bTPNox-z-vdIEN5cPLdZbQWu48K4ePfybs1w)
  • Extra videos (all MP4s) Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-25: https://transfer.archivete.am/hoAU8/hk.appledaily.com-dav3-video-urls-v2-filtered and job:2j0045cs5s8nis2st7j04yo4j
• Original article images:
  • The site used a resizing service thing to dynamically resize images as needed. The URLs for these resized images contain the references for the original images.
  • dav3's list: https://transfer.archivete.am/xSRbu/2014-2018_image_data.zip (rehosted from https://mega.nz/file/40cVHKJa#oK1FOJibRxhB4ZjdgMyfh2_RWR3nZ0U38SBsGuQI08U) and https://transfer.archivete.am/DtK5q/2019-2021_image_data.zip (rehosted from https://mega.nz/file/NoNDASRL#NCG5tNkoh2kC9U4MqEQBALePvTOI8q9kLq07YB_ZcNA)
  • ArchiveBot job:2u3qbx8mpv42jxi76wq27fbb2 list: https://transfer.archivete.am/UmdL5/hk.appledaily.com-images.zst
    • Post-processing of the resizer URLs: perl -pe 's,^https?://[^/]+/resizer/[^/]+/(\d+x\d+/)?(filters:quality\(\d+\)/)?,,; s,^([^/.]+)/,https://\1.s3.amazonaws.com/,; s,^(?!https?://),https://,'
  • ArchiveBot job:cq818fq2c4576r7ebyokwt1q2 (Twitter account) list: https://transfer.archivete.am/PSAGY/twitter-@appledaily_hk-images.zst
  • dav3's list Partially saved with ArchiveBot job:7aj3s1gn5re97wawqazi1655x; aborted in favour of the combination below.
  • Combination of the three lists, 995804 images in total (with some duplicates served from different URLs) in separate parts:
    • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.archivete.am/FIO8h/hk.appledaily.com-images-originals-0 and job:52oyc1wd8infujsq1rnjvfwn5
    • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.archivete.am/DmA8n/hk.appledaily.com-images-originals-1 and job:cd8oqtrwztsdqjhltylyn4uhj
    • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.archivete.am/xRkYE/hk.appledaily.com-images-originals-2 and job:6u6aabikwqa99r4a1v86gsah7
    • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.archivete.am/FCAyB/hk.appledaily.com-images-originals-3 and job:eglpde69zgo6tlj3hdcivm3w1
    • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.archivete.am/zpHrq/hk.appledaily.com-images-originals-4 and job:85svti0acvfh6xqq4ckxrwnl5
    • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.archivete.am/rvH51/hk.appledaily.com-images-originals-5 and job:79s4sfex2pbuyiz0biworqwng
    • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.archivete.am/13LurA/hk.appledaily.com-images-originals-6 and job:aeqrverzldgvwhdjzvbv5vcdy
    • Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.archivete.am/5ablC/hk.appledaily.com-images-originals-7 and job:b4ns4i46kkgjw377ds5qid2q1
• Another list from dav3 for the last few days, containing images and videos: https://transfer.archivete.am/UnV7C/20210620-20210622_image_video_urls.zip (rehosted from https://mega.nz/file/wp10zBaY#8QQ21fqaFl_b1JRdOSx4Gy4axJSG97hX5RTpZQvuYLs)
  • Images Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-26: https://transfer.archivete.am/fQ2GL/hk.appledaily.com-images-originals-8 and job:91dvawyx0x6oii63d81wi0kg4

Other subdomains and sites

• https://en.appledaily.com/ Saved!
  • Partially saved by recursive crawls with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-18 and 2021-06-21: job:5d3od6h5d3g2dsc39q79er9s3
    • Incomplete because the site uses JavaScript pagination and the sitemap only returns articles from the past month.
  • Full pagination Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-22: https://transfer.archivete.am/8QFjZ/en.appledaily.com-pagination and job:dhpyv9xtvusns9tu4zxbsc8mb
  • Articles from the pagination Saved! with ArchiveBot and URLs: https://transfer.archivete.am/12W4cM/en.appledaily.com-articles and job:18htae9bm7std751bvsz9qcuo
  • Images in the pagination (thumbnails as well as resizer part stripped for the original image) Saved! with ArchiveBot: https://transfer.archivete.am/15G3Pz/en.appledaily.com-article-thumbnails and job:a3gqk6jomr56l4eq8m5i3nva4
  • Videos for articles Saved! with ArchiveBot: https://transfer.archivete.am/HjaVv/en.appledaily.com-videos.zst and job:7nu86pb9qmoq7s8fgzly9dwq7
• Countless obscure subdomains Saved! (some likely Partially saved) with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-21:
  • http://arc-static.appledaily.com/
  • http://arc-tw-static.appledaily.com/
  • http://cmpg.appledaily.com/
  • http://dev-arc-static.appledaily.com/
  • http://dev-evt.appledaily.com/
  • http://dev-policy.appledaily.com/
  • http://evt.appledaily.com/
  • http://geoddsapi.appledaily.com/
  • http://imp.appledaily.com/
  • http://nextwork.appledaily.com/
  • http://policy.appledaily.com/
  • http://privilegehk-static.appledaily.com/
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  • http://uat-policy.appledaily.com/
  • http://vtrk.appledaily.com/
  • https://64.appledaily.com.hk/
  • https://auth.appledaily.com/
  • https://breastcancer.appledaily.com/
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  • https://gift.appledaily.com/
  • https://hk.feature.appledaily.com/
  • https://luckydraw-100k.appledaily.com/
  • https://member.appledaily.com/
  • https://myqrcode.appledaily.com/
  • https://privilegehk.appledaily.com/
  • https://privilegetw.appledaily.com/
  • https://student.appledaily.com/
  • https://tw-survey.appledaily.com/
  • https://tw.feature.appledaily.com/
  • https://tw.inv.appledaily.com/
  • https://tw.ticket.appledaily.com/
  • https://uat-cms-privilegetw.appledaily.com/
  • https://uat-privilegetw-static.appledaily.com/
  • https://uat-privilegetw.appledaily.com/
  • https://xinjiangcamps.appledaily.com/
• https://www.nextdigital.com.hk/ Saved! via ArchiveBot on 2021-06-23: job:bey80bq7khf228engfjl7588h

Social media

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/appledaily_hk Saved! via socialbot/ArchiveBot on 2021-06-17: job:cq818fq2c4576r7ebyokwt1q2
• Telegram: https://t.me/appledailyhk Saved! via ArchiveBot on 2021-06-18: job:bledkz91htfdcampuoj6citd0
• YouTube:
  • https://www.youtube.com/c/蘋果動新聞HKAppleDaily (aka /user/appleactionews and /channel/UCeqUUXaM75wrK5Aalo6UorQ): over 70000 videos in the #youtubearchive (on hackint) stash as of 2021-06-22 through repeated downloads; the actual channel only has 19937 videos as of 2021-06-22 12:05 UTC
    • Metadata from Playboard collected by thuban and Saved! with ArchiveBot since 2021-06-24: https://transfer.archivete.am/P369h/appledaily_videos_playboard_urls.txt and job:cpieggl3v90dvbhburt02m5n1
  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzKM7UMxGCPAgUDXmFw5Gg: 15525 videos in the youtubearchive stash and actual channel unavailable as of 2021-06-26
    • Metadata from Playboard collected by thuban and Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-25/26: https://transfer.archivete.am/J0QXS/playboard_UCCzKM7UMxGCPAgUDXmFw5Gg_urls.txt.zst and job:61s5bai6nzgotm2ijcf6tc2fb
  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-8CVMKt5Zlju_i07zhkC-Q: 25k videos in the youtubearchive stash and actual channel unavailable as of 2021-06-26
    • Metadata from Playboard collected by thuban and Saved! with ArchiveBot on 2021-06-25/26: https://transfer.archivete.am/dDyMC/playboard_UC-8CVMKt5Zlju_i07zhkC-Q_urls.txt.zst and job:6vwi7e1gfa5qfylqvg8ttzg78

Apple Daily Taiwan

Main website: https://tw.appledaily.com/^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]} / https://www.appledaily.com.tw/^{[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]}.

Main site

• https://tw.appledaily.com/ Saved! via ArchiveBot on 2021-06-21 and 2022-09-02: job:71oq3dclnbywik2r2233a72cj
• https://www.appledaily.com.tw/ Saved! via ArchiveBot on 2022-09-02: job:1bpf8c0mskncucvwghg2cqcwd

Social media

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/TW_nextmedia In progress... via socialbot/Archivebot on 2022-09-22
• Telegram: https://t.me/appledailytw Saved! via Telegram and (for good measure) Archivebot on 2022-09-02: job:eujjufuxfbq05xsj7rma716xm
• YouTube: #youtubearchive (on hackint) grabs In progress...
  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChLEhd2gouo1H-c9Zy9WGDA
  • https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRdgy26GRyk2x7saGesAc5Q
  • https://www.youtube.com/user/twappledailycook
  • https://www.youtube.com/user/twappledailyman
  • https://www.youtube.com/user/twappledailycar