Salon Table Talk

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Salon Table Talk
URL http://tabletalk.salon.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]
Status Closing
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

(more will be filled in later)


There are 2973 discussions on the site.

Discussion ids

Topic file Discussions Messages Claimed by
attic.Books%20Attic.html.ids 112 185972 alard
attic.Computers%20and%20Gadgets%20Attic.html.ids 25 76080 alard
attic.Health%20Attic.html.ids 43 49978 alard
attic.House%20and%20Garden%20Attic.html.ids 39 158918 alard
attic.Imagination%20Attic.html.ids 115 624478 alard
attic.Issues%20and%20News%20Attic.html.ids 81 226418
attic.Mind%20and%20Spirit%20Attic.html.ids 46 112880
attic.Mothers%20Attic.html.ids 147 958922
attic.Movies%20Attic.html.ids 80 155990
attic.Music%20Attic.html.ids 63 94153
attic.Politics%20Attic.html.ids 65 463451
attic.Private%20Life%20Attic.html.ids 140 1151462
attic.Salon%20Central%20Attic.html.ids 49 100084
attic.Sports%20Attic.html.ids 30 25401
attic.Television%20Attic.html.ids 64 551785
topic.Books.html.ids 63 29913
topic.Business%20and%20Work%20Life.html.ids 29 20225 no2pencil ?
topic.Families%20Who%20Think.html.ids 166 297148
topic.Gadgets.html.ids 31 10252 alard
topic.Health.html.ids 98 55033
topic.Home%20and%20Away.html.ids 57 58054
topic.House%20and%20Garden.html.ids 141 202618
topic.Imagination.html.ids 137 87706
topic.Issues%20and%20News.html.ids 150 77262
topic.Mind%20and%20Spirit.html.ids 55 32321
topic.Movies.html.ids 85 101155
topic.Music.html.ids 59 34161
topic.Politics.html.ids 100 121838
topic.Private%20Life.html.ids 192 386561
topic.Salon%20Central.html.ids 51 67267
topic.Sports.html.ids 44 24411
topic.Television.html.ids 168 164601
topic.Welcome.html.ids 8 2507
topic.White%20House.html.ids 240 395284

Scripts, list of discussion ids

The git depository contains scripts and lists of discussion ids.

You should be able to run ./dld-all.sh FILE_WITH_DISCUSSION_IDS to start a download. From time to time you will be blocked by tabletalk. The script will then exit. Start it again after some time and it will pick up where it stopped.

Site structure

Topics

The discussions on the site are grouped in a number of topics. These topics are listed on the tabletalk front page: Books, Family Life etc.

URLs:
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/Books/
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/Families%20Who%20Think/
etc.

(Note: the URL of the topic is not always the same as the topic's title, see Families%20Who%20Think vs. Family Life.)

Each of the topic pages has a full list of the discussions in that topic.

Most topics have archived discussions, which are moved to an 'attic'. The list of topics in the attic can be found via the attic link on the topic page. For example:

http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/Books/Books%20Attic/

The attic page has, like the topic page, a list of the discussions.


Discussions

A discussion has a starting post (which appears on each page) and a list of messages. A discussion has a discussion id, a sequence of letters and digits. The messages are paginated: 50 messages per page. The index of the next message is given in the URL, starting at index 0 for the first message.

Simple URLs to get the messages of a discussion:

http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.[DISCUSSION ID]/[MSG INDEX]

E.g.
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.eea08df/0
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.eea08df/50
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.eea08df/100
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.eea08df/...

These URLs do work, but the URLs that are linked from the tabletalk pages look slightly different.

http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?14@@.eea08df/0
http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx?14@@.eea08df/1160

The last page of the discussion can be recognized by grepping for the LAST link. If this link is not on the page, you have found the end of the discussion.