Difference between revisions of "Weibo"

Latest revision as of 08:35, 27 November 2021

Weibo is the Chinese incumbent microblogging platform.

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-'''Weibo''' is the Chinese incumbent microblogging platform, a mix of Twitter and Facebook (which basically don't reach China at all).
+'''Weibo''' is the Chinese incumbent microblogging platform.
 == Archives ==
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 * for {{URL|http://weibo.com}} (before April 2014).
-Webpages fetched '''after''' April 2014 are mostly n/a on [[IA]], since [https://web.archive.org/web/20140424233224/http://www.weibo.com/ most crawls on IA being redirected to a page on passport.weibo.com, titled "Sina Visitor System". ]
+Webpages fetched '''after''' April 2014 are mostly broken on [[IA]], since [https://web.archive.org/web/20140424233224/http://www.weibo.com/ most crawls on IA being redirected to a page on passport.weibo.com, titled "Sina Visitor System". ] This behaviour applied '''unless''' User-Agent is set to "spider"/"googlebot"/etc<ref>{{URL|https://bindog.github.io/blog/2014/10/15/set-the-ua-to-bypass-sina-visitor-system/}}</ref>, so specifying a User-Agent in {{URL|https://weibo.com/robots.txt|robots.txt}} is required for crawling. [[IA]]'s crawls and [[ArchiveBot]] (if no searchbot UA specified) would not work on this site.
-Changing User-Agent to "googlebot" alike is required for crawing according to some report.<ref>{{URL|https://bindog.github.io/blog/2014/10/15/set-the-ua-to-bypass-sina-visitor-system/}}</ref>
 == External links ==