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| title = FilePlanet
| title = FilePlanet
| logo = Fileplanet_logo.jpg
| logo = Fileplanet_logo.jpg
| description = Website host of game content, 1996-2012
| description = Website host of game content, 1999-2012
| URL = http://www.fileplanet.com
| URL = http://www.fileplanet.com
| image = Fileplanet_snap.png
| image = Fileplanet_snap.png
| project_status = {{closing}}
| project_status = {{specialcase}} (no longer being updated)
| archiving_status = {{saving}}
| archiving_status = {{saved}}
| irc = fireplanet
| irc_network = EFnet
| irc_abandoned = true
| data = {{IA collection|archiveteam-fileplanet}}
}}
}}


[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 hosts 87,190 download pages of game-related material (demos, patches, mods, promo stuff, etc.), which needs to be archived. 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 tens of thousands of game-related files (demos, patches, mods, promo stuff, etc.). These tend to be larger files, ranging from 10MB patches to 3GB clients.


To help: Download and run [https://github.com/SpiritQuaddicted/fileplanet-file-download/blob/master/download_pages_and_files_from_fileplanet.sh Schbird's script].  This grabs the files and the source page, for its metadata.  You'll need to know what the start and stop parameters are - get those numbers from Schbird in IRC.
===The archival===


There doesn't seem to be much else on the site other than the files; if you're aware of anything the script is overlooking, let us know.
After first downloading files [[Fileplanet/Status_of_by_id_grab|by iterating IDs on the public website fileplanet.com and upload those in chunks to archive.org]] as well as [[Fileplanet/non-id-urls|scouting the web for other public URLs]], we got FTP access to the storage servers by the staff. Thanks!
 
https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-fileplanet is the collection. Unpacked and sorted it amounts to about ~TODO files at ~TODOTB. The ftp2 files (another ~300k files at a total of ~1.2TB) 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.
 
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/
 
===Related items===
* /fileinfo/ pages and the embedded images/thumbnails from the grab by IDs: https://archive.org/details/FileplanetFiles_fileinfo_pages_images
* /download/ pages and download logs from the grab by IDs: https://archive.org/details/Fileplanet_index.htmls_and_logs_scraped_by_id
* http://blog.fileplanet.com: https://archive.org/details/FileplanetBlogFileplanetCom
* http://www.fileplanet.com/fileblog/archives/: https://archive.org/details/FileplanetFileblog
 
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Revision as of 15:29, 20 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 tens of thousands of game-related files (demos, patches, mods, promo stuff, etc.). These tend to be larger files, ranging from 10MB patches to 3GB clients.

The archival

After first downloading files by iterating IDs on the public website fileplanet.com and upload those in chunks to archive.org as well as scouting the web for other public URLs, we got FTP access to the storage servers by the staff. Thanks!

https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-fileplanet is the collection. Unpacked and sorted it amounts to about ~TODO files at ~TODOTB. The ftp2 files (another ~300k files at a total of ~1.2TB) 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.

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/

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