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Revision as of 11:21, 8 December 2011

Splinder
Splinder homepage.png
URL http://www.splinder.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]

http://www.us.splinder.com/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]

Status Closing
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
IRC channel #archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

Splinder.com has been the main blog hosting company in Italy for a while (see Wikipedia:it:Splinder). It was founded in 2001 and it hosts about half a million blogs and over 55 millions pages. Since 8th November, 2011 a warning on the home page says that no new PRO accounts are being created since the 1st June. The company has confirmed that the website will close on the 24th.[1]

Update: the company issued an official statement saying that the closure will happen on January 31, 2012.[2] According to our tracker, we have downloaded or assigned all users.

Upload status

For the time being: please ignore any errors caused by special characters in usernames (| ^ etc.), we'll get those profiles later.

Uploaded to batcave?
Phase 1
Downloader Count Status
closure 254869
kenneth 206696
ndurner 177665
Nemo 111340 Uploaded with errors, some incomplete
donbex 71562
dnova 68620 Uploaded; still downloading more
underscor 58774
Wyatt 54525
crawl336 45785
Angra 35752
cameron_d 26357
db48x 23120 Uploaded, three profiles not uploaded
yipdw 18789 Most uploaded, re-doing some larger blogs with errors
crawl338 17783
crawl337 16784
crawl334 15897
Coderjoe 13749
bsmith093 13194
DoubleJ 10301 Uploaded from all machines w/ no errors
crawl339 9026
anonymous 8653
kennethreitz 8287
alard 7299 Uploaded, one error
dashcloud 6803
crawl333 6292
spirit 6282
crawl335 6106
Paradoks 5890 Uploaded, but still downloading 4 profiles
koon 5029
chronomex 4913 Partially Uploaded, moved house and has yet to get computers running
VMB 4620
shoop 4461
marceloantonio1 2927 Uploaded
undercave 2508
DFJustin 2456
proub 1178
Hydriz 842 Uploaded
canUbeatclosure 669
tef 440
arima 347
NotGLaDOS 259
sarpedon 105
pberry 89
Wyattq 84
soultcer 74
Konklone 56
PepsiMax 12
mareloantonio1 10 Uploaded
hrbrmstr 9
sente 7
rebiolca 6
2 5
Wyatt-B 3
Wyatt-A 2
asdf 2

How to help archiving

There is a distributed download script that gets usernames from a tracker and downloads the data.

Make sure you are on Linux, that you have curl, git, a recent version of Bash. Your system must also be able to compile wget.

  1. Get the code: git clone https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/splinder-grab
  2. Get and compile the latest version of wget-warc: ./get-wget-warc.sh
  3. Think of a nickname for yourself (preferably use your IRC name).
  4. Run the download script:
    • To run a single downloader, run ./dld-client.sh "<YOURNICK>".
    • To run multiple downloaders (and thus use your bandwidth more efficiently), do either:
      • simply run as many copies of dld-client.sh as you like
      • run ./dld-streamer.sh <YOURNICK> <N>, where <N> is the number of concurrent downloads you want.
  5. To stop the script gracefully, run touch STOP in the script's working directory. It will finish the current task and stop.

Notes

  • Compiling wget-warc will require dev packages for the various libraries that it needs. Most questions have been about gnutls; install the gnutls-devel or gnutls-dev package with your favorite package manager.
  • Downloading one user's data can take between 10 seconds and several days.
  • The data for one user is equally varied, from a few kB to several GB.
  • The downloaded data will be saved in the ./data/ subdirectory.
  • Download speeds from splinder.com are not that high (servers may be particularly overloaded during European day because of additional traffic of people exporting their blogs). You can run multiple clients to speed things up.

Errors

  • There are some problems with subdomains containing dashes[3]: if they fail on your machine (reported: wget compiled with +nls), for now stop and restart the script, someone else will do those users (although they seem to fail in part anyway).
    Some such users: macrisa, -Maryanne-, it:SalixArdens, it:MCris, it:7lilla, it:thepinkpenguin, it:bimbambolina, it:lazzaretta, it:Hedwige, it:N4m3L3Ss, it:Barbabietole_Azzurre, it:celebrolesa2212, it:buongiono.mattina, it:DarkExtra, it:-slash-, it:marlene1, it:Ohina, us:XyKy, us:Naluf, it:elisablu, it:*JuLs*, it:RikuSan, it:Nasutina
  • There are also some problems with upload-finished.sh because of some inconsistencies in escaping special characters, e.g. [4]; remember not to delete those directories without fixing/uploading them.
  • The script looks for errors in English, so it's better if you wget-warc to use English. Otherwise, errors like these won't be detected and the script will mark as done users which failed. Please run fix-dld.sh to fix those users, after changing if grep -q "ERROR 50" to your localised output.

splinder_noconn.html errors

Please check your wget logs for presence of a file named splinder_noconn.html. This is a transient maintenance page that has appeared in some downloads, but cannot be detected as an error by wget, because the page isn't returned with a status code indicating "an error occurred".

Some examples:

These accounts may have to be re-fetched.

Uploading your data

  • To upload the data you've downloaded, first contact SketchCow on IRC for an rsync slot. Once you have that you can run the ./upload-finished.sh script to upload your data. For example, run this in your script directory: ./upload-finished.sh batcave.textfiles.com::YOURNICK/splinder/
  • The script will upload only completed users. To check how much space the incomplete users are taking, without killing your disk, you can use ionice -c 3 find -name .incomplete -printf "%h\0" | ionice -c 3 du -mcs --files0-from=- in your splinder-grab directory.

Status

There is a real-time dashboard where you can check the progress.

External links

Site structure

The users are identified by their usernames. Fortunately, the side provides a list of all users. Usernames are not case-sensitive, but there is a case preference.

Example URLs

User profile: http://www.splinder.com/profile/<<username>>

Example profile:
http://www.splinder.com/profile/difficilifoglie

View count on profile page:
http://www.splinder.com/ajax.php?type=counter&op=profile&profile=Romanticdreamer

Example of friends list paging: (160 per page, starting at 0)
http://www.splinder.com/profile/difficilifoglie/friends
http://www.splinder.com/profile/difficilifoglie/friends/160

Inverse friends (probably also paged):
http://www.splinder.com/profile/difficilifoglie/friendof

Link to blog: (note: not always the same as the username)
http://difficilifoglie.splinder.com/
http://learnonline.splinder.com/

Photo:
http://www.splinder.com/profile/difficilifoglie/photo
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/wondermum/media/24544805

Video:
http://www.splinder.com/profile/wondermum/video
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/wondermum/media/25737390

Audio:
Not a separate user feed, but only accessible via mediablog
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/learnonline/media/25727030

Mediablog: combination of the audio + video + photo lists
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/learnonline
(16 per page, starting at 0)
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/learnonline/16

Mediablog has PowerPoint, Word files:
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/learnonline/media/25641346
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/learnonline/media/25546305
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/learnonline/media/21901634
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/learnonline/media/24875290

User avatar: grab url from profile page

Photo file: grab url from photo page and remove _medium to get original picture
http://files.splinder.com/d5e492233631af39212268593afca02d_square.jpg
http://files.splinder.com/d5e492233631af39212268593afca02d_medium.jpg
http://files.splinder.com/d5e492233631af39212268593afca02d.jpg
older photos do not have this structure, different ids for each size:
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/babboramo/media/17359043
http://files.splinder.com/13b615ccbd75354ee4e0d973da66c2b2.jpeg
http://files.splinder.com/770d7b9ecac27083d9204af327ebe743.jpeg

PowerPoint, Word files: grab url from media page
http://files.splinder.com/46dbf3d5a0b12e490f81ddb8444b4fad.ppt
http://files.splinder.com/ab3ce16c850ac530351d9df0937152c7.pdf

Video items: grab url from media page
http://files.splinder.com/8f5caff20685648bacd4ce1acf90e645_square.jpg
http://files.splinder.com/8f5caff20685648bacd4ce1acf90e645_thumbnail.jpg
http://files.splinder.com/8f5caff20685648bacd4ce1acf90e645_small.flv
note: square, thumbnail, small is not always available, check flashvars for vidpath, imgpath
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/babboramo/media/13131052
http://files.splinder.com/e067653e1532e55ee208605fcb84361a.flv
http://files.splinder.com/f56060b7fef139f03b72e06ca9fcba55.jpeg

Audio items: grab url from media page, flashvars
sometimes there is a _thumbnail, remove that to get a better quality
http://files.splinder.com/a5043c34a12ee66f5ad995ffd14493ef_thumbnail.mp3
http://files.splinder.com/a5043c34a12ee66f5ad995ffd14493ef.mp3

Comments on blog posts:
http://www.splinder.com/myblog/comment/list/25742358
on some, but not on all blogs, those comments are also included in the blog page
http://dal15al25.splinder.com/post/25740180
http://soluzioni.splinder.com/post/2802227/blog-pager-su-piu-righe
http://soluzioni.splinder.com/post/25737683/avviso-per-gli-utenti-ce-da-preoccuparsi/
http://civati.splinder.com/post/25742977
pagination: see media comments

Comments on media items:
http://www.splinder.com/media/comment/list/21254470
http://www.splinder.com/media/comment/list/21254470?from=50
(50 per page, starting at 0)
number of comments is on the media page
http://www.splinder.com/mediablog/danspo/media/21254470


Blog urls:
the blogs have content from their own subdomain, but also from
files.splinder.com
www.splinder.com/misc/ (topbar css, gif)
www.splinder.com/includes/ (js)
www.splinder.com/modules/service_links/ (images)
syndication.splinder.com

links to www.splinder.com that should NOT be followed:
 /myblog/
 /users/
 /media/
 /node/
 /profile/
 /mediablog/
 /community/
 /user/
 /night/
 /home/
 /mysearch/
 /online/
 /trackback/

wget-warc --mirror --page-requisites --span-hosts --domains=learnonline.splinder.com,files.splinder.com,www.splinder.com,syndication.splinder.com --exclude-directories="/users,/media,/node,/profile,/mediablog,/community,/user,/night,/home,/mysearch,/online,/trackback,/myblog/post,/myblog/posts,/myblog/tags,/myblog/tag,/myblog/view,/myblog/latest,/myblog/subscribe" -nv -o wget.log "http://learnonline.splinder.com/"