Difference between revisions of "Posterous"

Revision as of 02:31, 23 February 2013

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. Announcement

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We have assembled a list of Posterous sites that need grabbing. Total found: 9898986

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 | archiving_status = {{inprogress}}
 | irc = preposterus
+| tracker = [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/posterous/ here]
 }}
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 http://archive.org/details/2013-02-22-posterous-hostname-list
 Tools: [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/smeg git]
-== Archiving a single blog ==
-Developing a command to archive a single blog, including all images and assets.
-  USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27"
-  wget "https://$hostname" --warc-file=$hostname.warc \
-    --mirror --no-check-certificate --span-hosts \
-    --domains=$hostname,s3.amazonaws.com,files.posterous.com,getfile.posterous.com,getfile0.posterous.com,getfile1.posterous.com,getfile2.posterous.com,getfile3.posterous.com,getfile4.posterous.com,getfile5.posterous.com,getfile6.posterous.com,getfile7.posterous.com,getfile8.posterous.com,getfile9.posterous.com,getfile10.posterous.com \
-    -U "$USER_AGENT" -nv -e robots=off --page-requisites \
-    --timeout 60 --tries 20 --waitretry 5 \
-    --warc-header "operator: Archive Team" \
-    --warc-header "posterous-hostname: $hostname"
-Using https because it allows for http pipelining, which may help prevent being banned.