Difference between revisions of "GeoCities Japan"

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(Adding some issues to keep track of.)
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{{Infobox project
{{Infobox project
| title = GeoCities Japan
| title = GeoCities Japan
| image = Geocities japan 2k.png
| URL = http://www.geocities.jp/, http://www.geocities.co.jp/
| URL = http://www.geocities.jp/, http://www.geocities.co.jp/
| project_status = {{closing}}
| project_status = {{closing}}
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** geocities_jp_first.txt: First level subdirectory list under geocities.jp, compiled from IA CDX data. 566,690 records in total.
** geocities_jp_first.txt: First level subdirectory list under geocities.jp, compiled from IA CDX data. 566,690 records in total.
** geocities_co_jp_first.txt: Same as above, for geocities.co.jp. 12,470 records in total.  
** geocities_co_jp_first.txt: Same as above, for geocities.co.jp. 12,470 records in total.  
*** NOTE: The majority of sites under geocities.co.jp are not first-level sites, but "field" sites which are second-level (there could be, in theory, 1.79M of them; how many actually exist unknown), see explanation below.
*** NOTE: The majority of sites under geocities.co.jp are not first-level sites, but "neighborhood" sites which are second-level (there could be, in theory, 1.79M of them; how many actually exist unknown), see explanation below.
** blogs_yahoo_co_jp_first.txt: Same as above, for blogs.yahoo.co.jp. 646,901 records in total.
** blogs_yahoo_co_jp_first.txt: Same as above, for blogs.yahoo.co.jp. 646,901 records in total.
** geocities_co_jp_fields.txt: List of field names under geocities.co.jp.
** geocities_co_jp_fields.txt: List of neighborhood names under geocities.co.jp.
*** Individual websites are listed in the following format: "http://www.geocities.co.jp/[FieldName]/[AAAA]" where AAAA ranges from 0000 to 9999.
*** Individual websites are listed in the following format: "http://www.geocities.co.jp/[NeighborhoodName]/[AAAA]" where AAAA ranges from 1000 to 9999.
** include-surts.txt: List of subdomains that should be allowed by your crawler.
** include-surts.txt: List of subdomains that should be allowed by your crawler.
* geocities.jp grab from [https://e-shuushuu.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page E-Shuushuu Wiki], crawled as {{Job|cu6azkjwy45qmo1wwdxsdfusj}}: https://pastebin.com/raw/17hLpsN5:  
* geocities.jp grab from [https://e-shuushuu.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page E-Shuushuu Wiki], crawled as {{Job|cu6azkjwy45qmo1wwdxsdfusj}}: https://pastebin.com/raw/17hLpsN5:  
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* geocities.co.jp and missed geocities.jp URLs grabbed from the above targets, crawled as {{Job|31ges4c4c96k140sp6zah5vcc}}: https://transfer.sh/CLtZc/geocities-patch.txt ('''dead link''')
* geocities.co.jp and missed geocities.jp URLs grabbed from the above targets, crawled as {{Job|31ges4c4c96k140sp6zah5vcc}}: https://transfer.sh/CLtZc/geocities-patch.txt ('''dead link''')
* geocities.co.jp and geocities.jp crawl from [http://web.archive.org/web/20140403184117/http://award.surpara.com/misssp/ Miss Surfersparadise], crawled as {{Job|e8ynrp5a7p4vwjkyxw9eph9p0}}: https://archive.org/download/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20181021150002/urls-transfer.sh-geocities-misssp.txt-inf-20181007-102152-3ntkw-urls.txt
* geocities.co.jp and geocities.jp crawl from [http://web.archive.org/web/20140403184117/http://award.surpara.com/misssp/ Miss Surfersparadise], crawled as {{Job|e8ynrp5a7p4vwjkyxw9eph9p0}}: https://archive.org/download/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20181021150002/urls-transfer.sh-geocities-misssp.txt-inf-20181007-102152-3ntkw-urls.txt
== Issues ==
* Hidden-entry sites ''(Importance: '''Low''')'': There are a few sites that do not use index.htm/index.html as their entry points; as a result, first level directory access will fail to reach them.
** However, as long as there are other geocities sites linked to them, they should be discoverable by the crawler.
** So the only problem are those pages whose inlinks are all dead. There should be very few of those. If we want to be absolutely sure, we can run a diff between IA's current CDX and that from the crawl.
** Notice that this is not a problem with the neighborhood sites as we can enumerate the URLs.
* Deduplication ''(Importance: '''Low''')'': If we are going to release a torrent as we did with Geocities, they it may be worth to dedup. Most likely won't be a major difference.
* Final Snapshot ''(Importance: '''Moderate''')'': The page contents may still change between now and March 31 2019, so we need to do another crawl when the time is near.
** Note that a lot of users will be setting up 301/302s before the server shuts down. According to Yahoo, we'll have until Sep 30 2019 to log down those 301/302s.

Revision as of 05:31, 5 November 2018

GeoCities Japan
Geocities japan 2k.png
URL http://www.geocities.jp/, http://www.geocities.co.jp/
Status Closing
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #notagain (on hackint)

GeoCities Japan is the Japanese version of GeoCities. It survived the 2009 shutdown of the global platform.

Shutdown

On 2018-10-01, Yahoo! Japan announced that they would be closing GeoCities at the end of March 2019. (New accounts can still be created until 2019-01-10.)

Discovery Info

Issues

  • Hidden-entry sites (Importance: Low): There are a few sites that do not use index.htm/index.html as their entry points; as a result, first level directory access will fail to reach them.
    • However, as long as there are other geocities sites linked to them, they should be discoverable by the crawler.
    • So the only problem are those pages whose inlinks are all dead. There should be very few of those. If we want to be absolutely sure, we can run a diff between IA's current CDX and that from the crawl.
    • Notice that this is not a problem with the neighborhood sites as we can enumerate the URLs.
  • Deduplication (Importance: Low): If we are going to release a torrent as we did with Geocities, they it may be worth to dedup. Most likely won't be a major difference.
  • Final Snapshot (Importance: Moderate): The page contents may still change between now and March 31 2019, so we need to do another crawl when the time is near.
    • Note that a lot of users will be setting up 301/302s before the server shuts down. According to Yahoo, we'll have until Sep 30 2019 to log down those 301/302s.