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== The Problems ==
== The Problems ==


Once you start digging around these sites you find it to be a mess of inconsistent url schemes and content everywhere. Some files are being hosted on MediaFire.
* Once you start digging around these sites you find it to be a mess of inconsistent url schemes and content everywhere.  
* Some files are being hosted on MediaFire.


== What we know ==
== What we know ==
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* A clean list with dups and bad domains is already being process and will be posted here when complete.
* A clean list with dups and bad domains is already being process and will be posted here when complete.
* Most of the sites are not that big, but a few are huge.
* Most of the sites are not that big, but a few are huge.
== The plan ==
* Save the sites and related content
* Backup the twitter feeds for any associated accounts. [http://www.allmytweets.net/ All my tweets] just takes a username and returns the max tweets possible.





Revision as of 11:56, 23 February 2013

The News

IGN hit with layoffs, 1UP, UGO and GameSpy shutting down
1UP, UGO and GameSpy to be shut down

The Problems

  • Once you start digging around these sites you find it to be a mess of inconsistent url schemes and content everywhere.
  • Some files are being hosted on MediaFire.

What we know

  • We already have a list of almost all the domains involved
  • A clean list with dups and bad domains is already being process and will be posted here when complete.
  • Most of the sites are not that big, but a few are huge.

The plan

  • Save the sites and related content
  • Backup the twitter feeds for any associated accounts. All my tweets just takes a username and returns the max tweets possible.


wget test command

USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 9.0; en-US)"
SAVE_HOST="planetdoom.gamespy.com"

wget -e robots=off --mirror --page-requisites --waitretry 5 --timeout 60 \
--tries 10 --warc-header "operator: Archive Team" --warc-cdx \
"$SAVE_HOST" --warc-file="$SAVE_HOST" --wait 4 -U "$USER_AGENT" \
--span-hosts --domains=$SAVE_HOST,pcmedia.gamespy.com,pnmedia.gamespy.com,pspmedia.gamespy.com,oystatic.ignimgs.com