Fotopedia

Fotopedia
URL	http://www.fotopedia.com
Status	Offline
Archiving status	Saved!
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	Phase 1 Items Phase 2
Project tracker	Phase 1 Phase 2
IRC channel	#fotofinished (on hackint)

Fotopedia is user-contributed encyclopedia for photos

Site Structure

• Getting original photos: http://images.cdn.fotopedia.com/M9q-AYsaCzw-pTuP7SlOTYg-max_2560.jpg → http://images.cdn.fotopedia.com/M9q-AYsaCzw-pTuP7SlOTYg-original.jpg
• Abusing the API: http://www.fotopedia.com/community#users/most_featured/epoch
• Photos from a user appears in articles and stories.
• fr.fotopedia.com, simple.fotopedia.com, etc corresponding to language from Wikipedia (Londres = London)
• Some things come from external sites like Flickr: /items/flickr-3110692965
• iOS exclusives: http://www.fotopedia.com/products
• Bot trap: /bottrap/trap?random=11e4a41e28fe113233837ae86775e98c

Types of URLs

• A user: /users/4d41h58ro27a6
• A user's photos: /users/4d41h58ro27a6/last_photos
• A user's stories: /reporter/users/4d41h58ro27a6
• A story: /reporter/stories/OxPlIc_Oce_
• A photo: /items/4d41h58ro27a6-mnYC-fLgByc
• An article: /wiki/List_of_musical_instruments
• A user's following list: /users/e4-OQXo_noA/all_following
• A user's collection of stories: /reporter/personal_magazine/bCW-oGGCRbc
• A user's albums: /users/everlasting/all_albums
• A user's album: /albums/hU7EIxucmf4
• Something?: /albums/567c25cd-7ff1-42c8-aff1-05afc9b89bab/entries/fc4543dc-52df-45ca-bc3d-eee560df1cd2/photos?page=2
• Projects: /projects/A76yOhjrDPE

How to Help

Start up a Warrior. Alternatively, the scripts can be run manually as detailed in the source code repositories.

Phase 1 is content discovery. A list of usernames are combed for their IDs of photos, albums, stories etc. Phase 2 is the actual download of photos and pages.

Archives

Archives are saved in the WARC format and are uploaded to archiveteam_fotopedia collection on the Internet Archive.

You can browse the archives using the Wayback Machine.

You can access the CC licensed files at 2014.08.fotopedia-cc-export-collection

External Links

• Fotopedia closes, but CC-licensed photos live on