Posterous

Posterous
URL	http://posterous.com
Status	Closing
Archiving status	In progress...
Archiving type	Unknown
Project tracker	here
IRC channel	#preposterus (on hackint)

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

Seesaw script

Download:

https://gist.github.com/Gelob/16aacab95d2d59887d86

Follow instructions to install seesaw and edit script for IP address.

For wget: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/xanga-grab/blob/master/get-wget-lua.sh

Running too many concurrently will get you banned at :50 past the hour.

Commands:

Make sure you place an IP address after --bind-address= on line 175. Example: "--bind-address=192.168.1.1",

git clone http://github.com/Gelob/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: git