What is a good way of crawling and archiving a complete website for offline viewing? One of the services that has a lot of data that is important to me is shutting down without any options for archiving my data. It has a pretty JavaScript heavy UI and is protected with a login page that includes MFA. Ideally I'd be able to save it to a nice format like WARC.
The archiveweb.page extension seems to work well, but there are hundreds of links I would need to click to get to all the pages I'd like to archive. Ideally this would be an automated solution, though I would be open to writing some Python code to navigate this specific website. I think I would have to have something configured so I could manually log in before the scraping starts.
"In the in-depth study that was published in partnership with the Software Preservation Network, it was revealed that just 13% of all games released before 2010 are commercially or readily available today."
Run by Colin Post in cooperation with IFTF. This is a followup to Colin’s NarraScope talk, “Cataloging Narrative Games to Expand the Bibliographic Universe”.
Contact Colin if you’re interested in participating!
The YouTube channel NoClip is starting a crowdfunding project to digitize and archive VHS tapes containing video game history, including recordings of live events, trailers, and awards shows
AI-TRIGGER WARNING: I've asked ChatGPT to revise my writing because it was ass (writing a stream of coherent looking text is not my forte). Proceed at your own discretion....
Well Documented Code Helps Revive Decades-Old Commodore Project: Moral Of The Story, If You Want To Keep It, Print It On Paper
Luckily, Stephen’s younger self went to some extremes documenting the project, starting with a map he created which was inspired by Dungeons and Dragons. There are printed notes from a Commodore 64 printer, including all the assembly instructions, augmented w ...continues
What’s the Best Way to Store Data for Decades or Centuries? Bottom line: No Technology that is Easy or Practical
The concern keeps coming up (I’ve also been pondering it a lot and posted in this last week what I’ve been doing).
This linked article does sum up the essentials very well, and this helps illustrate why this is a challenge for 20 or 60 years or especially ...continues
With around 180,000 people dying daily, I found more analogue ways of preserving my memories
Reading an article about this published two days back in The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review, got me thinking yet again about this topic (as you do when you are past your 40’s or 50’s) and what I’ve gravitated towards in order to preserve some memories. Too ...continues
So far, i've given VLC and Handbrake each a shot at ripping the same movie;
vlc spat out a very low resolution mp4 file with broken audio, Handbrake took 16 hours to pump out a 13.5 gb file with broken audio and artifacted to high hell and back.
So so far it aint going greeeeeat.
I'm giving MakeMKV a shot but i'm starting to feel my best bet may just be 'pirating' copies of what I already own that I want on my server...
I'm way too hard of hearing to not have subtitles available to me.
Weirdly enough, the most pain-free method i've experienced of makimg backups like this is with my jailbroken ps3 (which is currently missing both a controller and a disk drive)
#MastodonHelp
Is there any tool to download public posts and retoots and reply toots of an inactive Mastodon account? I forgot to backup my posts before migrating, and I don't know a method that doesn't involve disabling inactivity on the account (and not sure what that will do).
my work explores the role of digital data, methods and infrastructures in the composition of collective life.
i'm currently focusing on...
📘 a book on public data practices
🌳 arts-based digital methods for exploring environmental issues
🐌 a special issue on critical technical practices in digital research
🗃 documenting online mobilisations of east and southeast asian communities in the uk
i'm senior lecturer in critical infrastructure studies at the department of digital humanities, king's college london; cofounder of publicdatalab.org; and research associate at digitalmethods.net + medialab.sciencespo.fr.
OC If you want to save the existing reddit content for future off-reddit use, you should get involved with Archiveteam
Archiveteam's Reddit project is working to save reddit content from the hungry maw of corporate destruction....
Need help on saving reddit threads (for post-blackout reasons) to Obsidian
AI-TRIGGER WARNING: I've asked ChatGPT to revise my writing because it was ass (writing a stream of coherent looking text is not my forte). Proceed at your own discretion....