Photobucket
| Photobucket | |
 The Photobucket home page as seen on 2011-01-12 | |
| URL | http://photobucket.com |
| Status | Endangered (free accounts being discontinued) |
| Archiving status | Not saved yet |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #photosucket (on hackint) |
Photobucket is an image hosting service. They were also at one point hosting Twitter images.[1]
Vital signs
Had a major outage though around year turnover from 2019 to 2020.[2]
In May 2023, Photobucket announced to disable all free accounts and their accompanying images.[3]
Archiving Photobucket
PB_Shovel can be used to download all images from an album and all subalbums (recursively).
This version of PB_Shovel has also been modified with a `--links-only` option to crawl a list of every single URLs from the album and subalbums instead of downloading. This makes it possible to use wget to grab all the files yourself, or grab-site to archive with WARC.
Usage: Obtain all the urls of a Photobucket Album, even subalbums (using the -r parameter), and put them in links-<datetime>.txt. This url file can be given to wget or grab-site to download.
python pb_shovel.py 'http://s160.photobucket.com/user/Spinningfox/library/Internet Fads' -r --links-only wget -i links-2016-03-20_02-03-01.txt grab-site -i links-2016-03-20_02-03-01.txt
External links
- http://photobucket.com
- https://www.thephotoforum.com/threads/how-to-get-around-photobuckets-watermarks-on-your-images.438126/ - how to modify URLs in order to archive images without watermarks.
References
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/twitter-partners-with-photobucket-on-photos-and-firefox-on-search/2011/06/01/AGVDSVGH_story.html[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://thedeadpixelssociety.com/power-outage-impacts-photobucket-over-key-holiday-period/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
- ↑ https://support.photobucket.com/hc/en-us/articles/13209408103572-Changes-to-the-Photobucket-Free-Account[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]