Kephost.com
| Kephost.com | |
 Kephost.com, a Hungarian image sharing site | |
| URL | http://kephost.com[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
| Status | Online! |
| Archiving status | Not saved yet |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
- Not to be confused with Kephost.hu.
Kephost.com is a Hungarian one-click image sharing service, one of the oldest and most popular ones besides kepfeltoltes.hu. People can easily upload files from their computers with a few clicks, and then paste the URLs of the images (or their pages) wherever they want. Here users can also choose a category to upload to, and even create an account for themselves. Pictures can be commented on through the embedded Facebook comment module.
The service started in 2008. Since then, they have changed design in almost every year, and also have had several different site structures (including accessing images) – however, they seem to have not deleted older pictures since the first, 2010 redesign.
Vital signs
Technical issues
Seems okay.
Administrator activity
No information available.
Financial status
No information available. Entity behind the site is unknown.
Site structure
As already mentioned, they have had several different site structures. The following applies to their last, which has been in use apparently since 2014.
Uploaded images can be public, and also probably private (this function needs registration). Not all pictures appear in the image browser (probably the private ones not). Also, apparently not all tokens creatable from the alphabet (see below) are handed out. Finally, recently some older pictures don't appear in the end of the image browser.
Images are given a page whose URL is http://www.kephost.com/image/<ID> where <ID> seems to be an incrementing base-62 number (alphabet A..Z, 0..9, a..z (in this order (?)), starting with one character). The location of the actual image is http://kephost.com/images/<YYYY>/<MM>/<DD>/<FILENAME>.<EXT> where YYYY-MM-DD is the date the file was uploaded, FILENAME is the same as the user's file had on their computer, <EXT> is its extension. This original version is always linked in with an <a> tag, as the download link. A thumbnail version is also generated for every picture, alhough not shown; its filename is postfixed with .th, like <FILENAME>.th.<EXT>. Finally, if the image is large enough, an .md (medium) version is also generated (filename extended with .md), and in this case this version, otherwise the original one is shown on the page (with an <img> tag).
Bottom line: the original file and – if exists – the medium sized version can be grabbed with recursive (+1 level) mirroring including page requisites, but the thumbnail version needs to be fetched separately, manually (knowing the filename). An other option is doing a sequential discovery for existing pictures and their image-versions' URLs, and then downloading that list, maybe with page requisites.
Older images
Archiving older images would need web scrape. Some of the older pattern prefixes:
kephost.com/view3.php?filename=– followed by a random alphanumeric/underscore token plus extensionkephost.com/images[23]/– followed by a random alphanumeric/underscore token plus extensionkephost.com/images4/– followed by YYYY/M/D (one or two digit month and day!) then a random alphanumeric/underscore token plus extension, the token often also contains the date in YYYY_M_D formatkephost.com/view-NUM_TOKEN.EXT– NUM might be a day counter, TOKEN might be the original filename
Archiving
The Wayback Machine doesn't archive the site properly.