SourceForge

SourceForge
URL	https://sourceforge.net/[IA•Wcite•.today]
Status	Online!
Archiving status	Not saved yet
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	sourceforge-grab, sourceforge-grab-rsync
Project tracker	sourceforge, sourceforgersync
IRC channel	#sourceforget (on hackint)

SourceForge is a free software repository.

It's really old, ad supported, adware supported. And yet, it is still alive.

It hosts code migrated from BerliOS which shut down.

Vital signs

FRS Area removal (2015)

Hello,
You have been identified as having saved files in you user FRS profile area (/home/pfs/<username>. We are planning on removing this
area for user accounts on March 17th 2015. We wanted to give you the opportunity to move your data to a new location before we
remove the data. Here is a link that should help you with moving your data:
https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/SFTP/
If you need any help please contact us.
Thanks
SourceForge.net Support
sfnet_ops@slashdotmedia.com
https://sourceforge.net/support

Admins hijacking projects to add more adware (2015)

https://lwn.net/Articles/646118/^{[IA•Wcite•.today]}

CVS repository deprecation (2017)

SourceForge decommissioned CVS repositories and made static ZIP archives of the contents that exist at the URLs below, regardless of whether the project CVS web pages still exist.

Developer Web removal (2025)

SourceForge shut down per-user developer web hosting, ArchiveTeam saved it (see below).

G3D file deletions (2025)

SourceForge required G3D developers to delete old releases to free up space. Decades of code and binaries were removed. Any large and still active project is at risk from the same thing happening.

Site structure

• 444,202 project URLs found: https://github.com/marcroberts/archiveteam-sourceforge-lister/blob/master/projects-sorted.txt^{[IA•Wcite•.today]}

Download files can be found on public ftp mirrors, priority on the rest of the site then download files last? e.g. https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.sourceforge.net/^{[IA•Wcite•.today]}

CVS/svn/git/hg/bzr repositories should be a priority; many projects do not have their source code on the ftp mirrors.

CVS repository ZIP archives are located at URLs like this:

https://sourceforge.net/code-snapshots/cvs/p/pf/pfqueue.zip

The main API is documented here: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Allura%20API/^{[IA•Wcite•.today]} and allows unauthenticated access to most services. It also can indicate what revision control system is used.

Appropriate tools, (such as git clone -m and svnrdump) can be used to backup, but SF suggests using rsync regardless of the actual revision control system used.

• Some projects have subdomain sites on either sourceforge.net or sourceforge.io. Ex: http://supertuxkart.sourceforge.net/^{[IA•Wcite•.today]}. Many can be listed by using the project API as an "external_homepage". These are not necessarily static sites; some of these use MediaWiki or other other software (e.g. https://wala.sourceforge.net/^{[IA•Wcite•.today]} or https://nsis.sourceforge.io/^{[IA•Wcite•.today]})

2015 archival

On June 17, 2015, ArchiveTeam started two simultaneous grabbing process: one for web-based content and binaries, and one for rsync-able source code repositories. Shortly afterwards, someone claiming to be a SourceForge staff member, told us to stop and first contact their representative.

jún 18 22:08:45 <burley-sf> FYI: I just blocked your archive client
jún 18 22:09:05 <JRWR>      oh?
jún 18 22:09:07 <burley-sf> it's not following robots.txt, and hitting recursive deep dives
jún 18 22:09:18 <JRWR>      oh my
jún 18 22:09:24 <arkiver>   burley-sf: We're currently trying to archive the software on your website
jún 18 22:09:26 <burley-sf> I'll also be killing the rsync's here soon, you are going too heavy on this
jún 18 22:09:37 <burley-sf> I understand, and I am OK with that -- but not the way you are doing it
jún 18 22:09:58 <arkiver>   burley-sf: What is your limit?
jún 18 22:09:59 <burley-sf> I suggest you stop, so I don't have to block the IPs for rsync
jún 18 22:10:06 <burley-sf> and reach out to our community guy
jún 18 22:10:14 <burley-sf> gimme min and I'll give you an email address
jún 18 22:10:24 <achip>     rsync is paused
jún 18 22:10:38 <arkiver>   burley-sf: thank you
jún 18 22:11:05 <burley-sf> rgaloppini@slashdotmedia.com
[...]
jún 18 22:36:13 <burley-sf> So reach out to Roberto at the address above and then I am sure we can sort something out that doesn't cause impact to the other users
jún 18 22:37:35 <burley-sf> And if you need to reach me for some reason -- david@sourceforge.net

We attempted to contact them but got no reply.

Developer Web archival (2025)

SourceForge Developer Web Services
URL	https://sourceforge.net/
Status	Offline
Archiving status	Saved!
Archiving type	DPoS
Project source	sourceforgedeveloperweb-grab, sourceforgedeveloperweb-items
Project tracker	sourceforgedeveloperweb
IRC channel	#sourceforget (on hackint)

On 2025-08-09, SourceForge announced in a blog post that the Developer Web Service, the web hosting service for users, was to be shut down on 2025-10-10. SourceForge provided a list of affected users, but SourceForge refused to provide a full file listing. Their list was supplemented with URLs and emails from the CDX and other sources with the URL fragments users.sf.net users.sourceforge.net sf.net/u/ sf.net/users/ sourceforge.net/u/ sourceforge.net/users/ and then the resulting list was run via DPoS and automatically supplemented with parent directory detection during the DPoS.

Sunsetting Developer Web (User Web)

SourceForge will be sunsetting developer web hosting for user accounts (unrelated to project web hosting) in 60 days on October 10th, 2025.

If you are using developer web hosting on your SourceForge user account, please make arrangements before October 10th, 2025. Project web hosting for projects will continue as is.

Please refer to our documentation if you need help accessing your files hosted on developer web hosting.

External links

• SourceForge^{[IA•Wcite•.today]}