GeneratorLand

GeneratorLand
URL	http://generatorland.com
Status	Closing
Archiving status	Not saved yet
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

GeneratorLand is a website where people can create generators; it's shutting down on December 31st of 2026.

The website appears to be in disrepair (save for the "shutting down" popup), since the blog already 500s and the copyright date on the page hasn't been updated since 2017; it also seems to randomly go offline and online; it appears to be caused by loading the members' list (this combined with the broken blog could be a sign that the database and/or its disk is failing).

There seem to be a few hundreds of members on the website; unfortunately, due to the instability of the site, I doubt whether checking is possible.

What and How to archive

The main type of content is the generator (it's in the name after all). They fortunately have sequential IDs. If you visit a generator that doesn't exist, the webserver throws an error.

The greatest generator ID I've seen on the website is 29863 (http://generatorland.com/usergenerator.aspx?id=29683).

The best strategy available to dump a generator is to do a recursive dump of each generator ID webpage into a WARC file; the generator's code itself, however, is embedded in the web page's HTML.