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[http://www.fileplanet.com FilePlanet] is no longer hosting new content, and "is in the process of being archived [by IGN]."
In 2012 [http://www.fileplanet.com FilePlanet] announced it was no longer hosting new content, and "is in the process of being archived [by IGN]."


FilePlanet hosted 87,190 download pages of game-related material (demos, patches, mods, promo stuff, etc.). These tend to be larger files, ranging from 10MB patches to 3GB clients. We'll want all the arms we can for this one, since it gets harder the farther the archiving goes (files are numbered chronologically, and Skyrim mods are bigger than Doom ones).
FilePlanet hosted at least 87,190 download pages of game-related material (demos, patches, mods, promo stuff, etc.). These tend to be larger files, ranging from 10MB patches to 3GB clients.


===Current Situation===
===Current Situation===

Revision as of 17:00, 16 April 2022

FilePlanet
Fileplanet logo
Website host of game content, 1999-2012
Website host of game content, 1999-2012
URL http://www.fileplanet.com
Status Special case (no longer being updated)
Archiving status Saved!
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)
(formerly #fireplanet (on EFnet))
Data[how to use] archiveteam-fileplanet

In 2012 FilePlanet announced it was no longer hosting new content, and "is in the process of being archived [by IGN]."

FilePlanet hosted at least 87,190 download pages of game-related material (demos, patches, mods, promo stuff, etc.). These tend to be larger files, ranging from 10MB patches to 3GB clients.

Current Situation

We got direct access to the files by IGN, hooray! Mirroring is done, see https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-fileplanet for the tarballs. The ftp2 files cannot be shared publically since there are private files mixed in, we save them to IA anyways so maybe in the future we can sort them out. A detailed writeup and user-friendly interface will be available later. No help needed, everything below is outdated. Thanks for your interest!

There is a half-assed search interface available at https://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/fileplanet/fileplanet.php?filename=yourfilenamehere and a directory browser at https://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/fileplanet/fileplanet.php?directory=/some/dir/here/

What We Need

Grabbing files by iterating the IDs on the website

First we tried to archive all the files by iterating the ID of the urls on the website. See https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Fileplanet/Status_of_by_id_grab for info and what we achieved.

Grabbing files from the FTP

  • Schbirid mailed to FPOps@IGN.com and at some point in history did get FTP access to archive the files.
  • TODO