Tabblo
| Tabblo | |
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| URL | http://www.tablo.com/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb] |
| Status | Closing ? |
| Archiving status | Not saved yet |
| Archiving type | Unknown |
| IRC channel | #archiveteam-bs (on hackint) |
A post called Goodbye Tabblo by Ned Batchelder (former Tabblo employee).
Tabblo Lifeboat
Ned Batchelder (former Tabblo employee) wrote Tabblo Lifeboat, a Python script that helps users to download their tabblos.
Site structure
Tabblos
Tabblos have an url of the form http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/#ID#/, where #ID# is the numeric id of the tabblo. Tabblos are numbered sequentially, the last number at the time of writing is 1843370.
A tabblo consists of one HTML page with some text and one or more images. You can click on the images to get a large version, but apart from the larger image that won't give you more than is on the tabblo page. Most tabblos have comments, which are included in the page's HTML.
Running wget --page-requisites on a tabblo url will probably save all available information.
From the Tabblo Lifeboat we learn that Tabblo offers a nice way to download a tabblo in a zip file. This zip file will also give you the original photo files. Download url: http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/zip/#ID#/?orig=1. You have to log in before you can download this zip file (but once you're in you can download any tabblo, not just your own).
There's one other catch: the zip download will fail first. The first time you download it you'll get an incomplete zip file, the next time you try it you'll get a little bit more. Repeat downloading until you get the complete zip file. (Probably has something to do with caching.)
Conclusion, to download a tabblo we'll probably want to do something like this:
wget --page-requisites --warc-file tabblo http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/#ID#/
while ! unzip -t all.zip ; do
wget -O all.zip --header="Cookie: tabblosesh=###" http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/zip/#ID#/?orig=1
done
Users
TODO The user pages (e.g. http://www.tabblo.com/studio/person/chilla/) have everything you'd expect from a social network: comments, photos, friends, favorites, messages.