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Posterous is a blogging platform started in May 2008. It was acquired by Twitter on March 12, 2012 and will shut down April 30, 2013. [http://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous Announcement]
'''Posterous''' was a blogging platform started in May 2008. It was acquired by [[Twitter]] on March 12, 2012 and shut down April 30, 2013.


== Warrior ==
==Shutdown announcement==
You can help by installing and running the [[ArchiveTeam Warrior]] and selecting the "posterous" project.
[http://web.archive.org/web/20130501011949/http://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous Posterous will turn off on April 30]:


== Seesaw script (for advanced users)==
:Posterous launched in 2008. Our mission was to make it easier to share photos and connect with your social networks. Since joining Twitter almost one year ago, we’ve been able to continue that journey, building features to help you discover and share what’s happening in the world – on an even larger scale.
:On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter. This means that as of April 30, Posterous Spaces will no longer be available either to view or to edit.
:Right now and over the next couple months until May 31, you can download all of your Posterous Spaces including your photos, videos, and documents.
:Here are the steps:
:#Go to <nowiki>http://posterous.com/#backup</nowiki>.
:#Click to request a backup of your Space by clicking “Request Backup” next to your Space name.
:#When your backup is ready, you'll receive an email.
:#Return to <nowiki>http://posterous.com/#backup</nowiki> to download a .zip file.
:If you want to move your site to another service, WordPress and Squarespace offer importers that can move all of your content over to either service. Justmigrate offers a service to move your site to Tumblr.
:More information on these services can be found here:
:*http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/import-from-posterous/
:*http://help.squarespace.com/customer/portal/articles/881311-importing-content...
:*http://justmigrate.com
:We’d like to thank the millions of Posterous users who have supported us on our incredible journey. We hope to provide you with as easy a transition as possible, and look forward to seeing you on Twitter. Thank you.
:Sachin Agarwal
:Founder and CEO


'''Download:'''
==Archives==
We saved it! Discussion around and details of our efforts have been archived to the [[Posterous/War room|Posterous war room]]. The final moments has been [[Posterous/Story| retold as a story]].
* [http://archive.org/details/archiveteam_posterous Preposterous! The Posterous Grab] on archive.org
* [http://archive.org/details/2013-02-22-posterous-hostname-list List of hostnames]


git clone https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/posterous-grab.git
===I had a Posterous blog. How can I get my files back?===


Follow instructions to install seesaw and edit script for IP address.
There are two ways available:


For wget: run ./get-wget-lua.sh
* Check if your blog has been ingested in the [http://archive.org/web Wayback Machine].
* Extract the files from the WARC files with some [[The WARC Ecosystem|WARC tools]].
** This method requires power user skills. In essence, scan each CDX index file and then extract it from the appropriate WARC files. Ask us in [[IRC]] for help.


'''Commands:'''
==Press==
* [http://www.dailydot.com/news/archive-team-preserving-posterous/ Archive Team races to preserve Posterous before it goes dark], ''The Daily Dot'', 2013-03-13


Make sure you place an IP address after --bind-address= on line 175. Example: "--bind-address=192.168.1.1",
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git clone http://github.com/ArchiveTeam/posterous-grab.git
cd posterous-grab
git clone http://github.com/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit
cd seesaw-kit
sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
sudo pip install seesaw
cd ../
chmod +x get-wget-lua.sh && ./get-wget-lua.sh
run-pipeline --concurrent 1 --address <your_ip_address> pipeline.py <your_username>
 
== Site List Grab ==
 
We have assembled a list of Posterous sites that need grabbing. Total found: 9898986
 
http://archive.org/details/2013-02-22-posterous-hostname-list
 
Tools: [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/smeg git]
 
== Goal ==
We found 9.8 million possible posterous accounts. After filtering out the banned/spam accounts we have 6,677,720 left.
 
They close April 30th, 2013. We have 50 days left and 1,200,000 accounts downloaded.
 
60 sec * 60 min * 24 hours = 86,400 seconds a day
 
(6,677,720 - 1,200,000)/ 86,400 = 63.4 days at 1 account a second.
 
63.4 days (1 fetch a second)/50 days left = 1.268 and round that up to 2 accounts per second actually needed.
 
Now taking into account that not all accounts are the same size and the previous outages we have had the safe number would be 3x the above answer. So we need to download 6 full accounts per second to positively get all of posterous before it shuts down. This is also based on the assumption that we will not have to redownload any accounts at the end.

Revision as of 16:06, 17 January 2017

Posterous
Posterous home.png
URL http://posterous.com
Status Offline
Archiving status Saved!
Archiving type Unknown
Project source posterous-grab
Project tracker here
IRC channel #preposterus (on hackint)

Posterous was a blogging platform started in May 2008. It was acquired by Twitter on March 12, 2012 and shut down April 30, 2013.

Shutdown announcement

Posterous will turn off on April 30:

Posterous launched in 2008. Our mission was to make it easier to share photos and connect with your social networks. Since joining Twitter almost one year ago, we’ve been able to continue that journey, building features to help you discover and share what’s happening in the world – on an even larger scale.
On April 30th, we will turn off posterous.com and our mobile apps in order to focus 100% of our efforts on Twitter. This means that as of April 30, Posterous Spaces will no longer be available either to view or to edit.
Right now and over the next couple months until May 31, you can download all of your Posterous Spaces including your photos, videos, and documents.
Here are the steps:
  1. Go to http://posterous.com/#backup.
  2. Click to request a backup of your Space by clicking “Request Backup” next to your Space name.
  3. When your backup is ready, you'll receive an email.
  4. Return to http://posterous.com/#backup to download a .zip file.
If you want to move your site to another service, WordPress and Squarespace offer importers that can move all of your content over to either service. Justmigrate offers a service to move your site to Tumblr.
More information on these services can be found here:
We’d like to thank the millions of Posterous users who have supported us on our incredible journey. We hope to provide you with as easy a transition as possible, and look forward to seeing you on Twitter. Thank you.
Sachin Agarwal
Founder and CEO

Archives

We saved it! Discussion around and details of our efforts have been archived to the Posterous war room. The final moments has been retold as a story.

I had a Posterous blog. How can I get my files back?

There are two ways available:

  • Check if your blog has been ingested in the Wayback Machine.
  • Extract the files from the WARC files with some WARC tools.
    • This method requires power user skills. In essence, scan each CDX index file and then extract it from the appropriate WARC files. Ask us in IRC for help.

Press