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There was no update in December 2011 as announced, and http://urlte.am/ currently shows a Dreamhost page "this member has not set up their site yet". Is this team dead? -- [[User:Pne|Pne]] 07:56, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
There was no update in December 2011 as announced, and http://urlte.am/ currently shows a Dreamhost page "this member has not set up their site yet". Is this team dead? -- [[User:Pne|Pne]] 07:56, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
: Luckily no. We assembled the new torrent on the very last day of December 2011. Unfortunately we then decided that, since we were already updating the homepage, that we should finally move the homepage away from Dreamhost. Due to some miscommunication between [[User:Jscott]] (current domain owner), dot.am (domain registry) and Dreamhost (old webhost) we ended up with the domain not working and because the ArchiveTeam is very busy at the moment with Splinder and MobileMe, it takes some time to fix things. Rest assured that all data is safe, the December 2011 torrent is well seeded and waiting for downloaders and we are already working on a new release. In fact, our Github repository [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/urlteam-stuff/tree/master/website already contains] the updated website. --[[User:Soult|Soult]] 17:49, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

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Regarding archiving

Just randomly requesting TinyURLs like you propose will get you banned since you are making many requests for non-existent TinyURLs. We do allow bots to crawl TinyURLs, but only if they are crawling TinyURLs that exist which they pulled from whatever source they are crawling.

Kevin "Gilby" Gilbertson

TinyURL, Founder

http://tinyurl.com

A Problem Easily Solved

Just provide for us an excel spreadsheet in the form of:

tinyurl ID | full URL

And scraping won't be necessary. Up for it?

--Jscott 20:25, 4 December 2010 (UTC)

I e-mailed the TinyURL owner and he replied with that.
Zachera 00:06, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Another URL shortener

I ran into another URL shortener: http://ln-s.net/home/ Here's their API: http://ln-s.net/home/apidoc.jsp Jodi.a.schneider 17:05, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

xrl.us

Could you archive xrl.us (metamark.net), please? Thank you!

To clarify: metamark.net is the address of the web page; xrl.us is the prefix of the generated shortened URLs. -- Pne 12:08, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

Distributed Scraping

You could make a browser extension that records the long url for each short url that a person's browser visits, for certain known shorteners. This might be particularly helpful for uncooperative shorteners, since they wouldn't know the difference.

Then it would be a matter of encouraging many people to install the browser extension.

URLTeam gone?

There was no update in December 2011 as announced, and http://urlte.am/ currently shows a Dreamhost page "this member has not set up their site yet". Is this team dead? -- Pne 07:56, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Luckily no. We assembled the new torrent on the very last day of December 2011. Unfortunately we then decided that, since we were already updating the homepage, that we should finally move the homepage away from Dreamhost. Due to some miscommunication between User:Jscott (current domain owner), dot.am (domain registry) and Dreamhost (old webhost) we ended up with the domain not working and because the ArchiveTeam is very busy at the moment with Splinder and MobileMe, it takes some time to fix things. Rest assured that all data is safe, the December 2011 torrent is well seeded and waiting for downloaders and we are already working on a new release. In fact, our Github repository already contains the updated website. --Soult 17:49, 29 January 2012 (UTC)