So the mobile game Disney Mirrorverse is shutting down its servers in three days. Is there any way of archiving it? Even if the game can't be playable due to the servers no longer existing, is it possible to extract assets from it?

Hi, I need help finding a certain YouTube channel ID. This channel has been terminated and I cant find it at all costs since I also want to grab all video titles and URLs from its channel as well, the channel is called Gummy Bear Fast Speed. If anyone can help I would really appreciate it. thanks!

This house has magazines from the 1960s and stuff (look, life, readers digest, ect.) I am not sure what to do should i go scan them or what should i do i don't want to get in legal trouble

The pioneering German Online-Magazine and Forum for Internet-Culture telepolis.de, part of heise media, has deleted the first 25 years of articles on its site. Many are still available through the wayback machine for now. The Forum, that has not previously been archived, containing millions of contemporary discussions on these articles concerning german and international politics as well as internet culture is scheduled to be permanently deleted with the beginning of next week. Please Help in Backing it Up!

Hi, I'm a final year uni film student in Pakistan, and I'm making my thesis documentary on media preservation from older tech (tapes, casettes, old storage devices etc.) in Pakistan. I'm looking for Pakistani members of the lost media community (enthusiasts, hunters, preservationists/archivists etc.) to find more about the lost media community here, and hopefuly find more leads for lost media hunts, interviews, or archival projects happening here.

Anyone interested in being a part, please get in touch with me or reply to this.

I'd really appreciate it, thank you!

Hi everyone, I'm a researcher currently working on a project about Professor Raymond Dart. I've learned that the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) holds digital archives that include original photographs of him, but I've been unable to access these materials. Does anyone have experience with Wits' digital repositories or know which department or individual I should contact to request access? Any guidance or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thank you! Matteus

The link is below, the show was Noisevox hosted by John Norris:

http://blip.tv/noisevox/face-time-mac-demarco-6383385

Title:

Face Time: Mac DeMarco

I'm planning on deleting my two twitter accounts, and I've been looking for a good tool that can scrape my tweets, associated media, likes, replies, etc. and output in a format that would be usable as (or could be turned into) an archive. I've tried various tools already like twexportly, twitter profile scraper, and WFdownloader, however, I've had less than ideal results. The latter can only download media and text/info separately, and other scraping tools simply don't work when I try them, or don't contain all the information I want.

Save for literally recording my screen as I scroll through every single one of my tweets, is there any working, good method for this? Preferably free, but I'm kind of desperate so I'm willing to use paid options.

probably too late to archive anything but still worth giving a shot

garnek.pl, a once popular polish photoblog and photo hosting site, serving ~30 million posts [probably less due to them beind deleted over time] is shutting down on 25.11.2024 due to not being sustainable for further operation

Official statement present on the site [machine translated]:

Dear Users,

We regret to inform you that the garnek.pl website will be closed on November 25, 2024. This decision was made due to insufficient advertising revenue compared to the cost of maintaining the platform, which makes it impossible for us to continue running the service.

Please download your images before this date, as all files will be irretrievably deleted on November 25, 2024. To facilitate this process, there will be a Download Photos button on the profile, which will allow you to quickly and easily save all the material to your devices.

Taking care of your security and privacy, we assure you that all data stored on our server will be permanently deleted as of November 25, 2024.

Thank you for being with us all these years.

Sincerely,

The garnek.pl team

Things worth noting:

• The site is pure html with very little ajax.
• Post urls are structured as follows: www\.garnek\.pl/{username}/{photo-id}/{photo-title} . It's not possible to get a photo post without the username in the URL, the title can be random. Example: https://www.garnek.pl/acidart/1905629/random-title
• https://www.garnek.pl/0/indeks/?p={pagenum} shows a list of one photo per a user on the website. With 468 pages and 130 photos per page, that is ~60,9k users
• https://www.garnek.pl/0/fotofora/?ch=A&p=1 shows a list of "photoforums" grouped alphabetically
• The latest photos have the ID of ~37 million. However, accounts that were not logged into for the past 6 months can get deleted along with the photos, so the actual number is probably way lower.
• If archived, these endpoints should probably get excluded:
  • /0/login/ and /0/rejestracja/
  • /0/xreport/ - api for reporting posts
  • /0/xffafave - api for favouriting posts
  • /0/xffpost /0/xffnowe /0/xcount - post interaction stuff, requires account
  • /0/scripts/profile/?id={usermane}&stamp={timestamp} - returns user info including registration date, however every page has a different timestamp in the URL
• Site behind a cloudflare IP

Again, probably too late to archive anything but still worth mentioning since this is a lot of history going down the drain.

It looks like we will lose a lot of US data and progress. And it'll be much worse if we don't have a backup to return to in 4-8 years or they can't get at the data from elsewhere.

Since the Internet archive got hacked, this program has not worked. It appears that the Internet archive is back, but the tubeup application that I have still will not upload anything. Apparently, they released a new version of the application, but it requires removal of the previous application and reinstallation of everything. For those of us that are not Linux people, this is not an easy task. Does anyone have a straightforward way (commands to paste) to remove tubeup (and all of its many dependencies) and then install latest version of it and all of those dependencies?

I’m asking here because the developers on the GitHub for tubeup seem to snap at anyone that comes there even asking the simplest question and they close the thread. 🤷‍♂️

Ok, this might be a hard nut to crack, but maybe some of you have an idea.

It appears the german sesame-street is really, really incomplete.

The Episodes from 1980 - 2008 are extremely out of order and maybe lost forever (or just dissolved in the basements of their producers).

My research so far has been contacting the studios (it were 3 different Studios that aired the german Sesame-Street. N3 / WDR, KIKA, ZDF)

Their Archive-team promised to contact me, but it has been multiple months now without any further reply

Youtube and the "ARD Mediathek" have some episodes, but they are the same you can get on the DVD (Classics "Collection") and can be found on YT. All incomplete of course.

Not sure where I could look now.

I'm out of ideas (especially after crawling through the internet-archives with zero luck).

Speaking of "Internet Archives":

They have SOME Episodes, but most of them are incomplete and many, many episodes are just missing.

And you know whats worse?

My family kept VHS-Casettes where they recorded every, single Episode when we were young but they threw it away when they had to move! "- - :-(

Hi all, I have an old facebook which I have loss the log in for and the last time i was on it i privated/locked the account. is there any way to view the contents of the account such as photos without logging in eg. through an archive website that would let me view the account before i privated it. thanks in advance

hello! im looking for a simply way to download tumblr messages that span back to 2014. is there an easy way to do this? im not very tech savy so any help would be great!

Their site shutdown was scheduled a month ago. Today is the last day with 16 hours left.

I notice they list their videos by categories for their entire site. So all we need to do is archive each category page.

Do you know how to automate the download process? For example with this:

https://veoh.com/find/piano?randText=yx8LsgGDVq3d&page=299

Automating the linkgrabbing and download with title author and upload date, then move on to the next video until page 1 is exhausted then the next page. Rinse and repeat until last page is reached.

Then plug each link into yt-dl.

Sad to say that I only found about this yesterday...

Does every page that Archivteam saves get put up on the Wayback Machine or does that have to manually be done?

https://closing.mangaz.com/

More info at https://www.reddit.com/r/manga/comments/1gk2nq6/manga_library_z_an_online_site_that_distributed/

Is there anyone who could work on a ripper and archive as much as possible of the site? There's a real danger that they could be lost media given most of the manga is not available legally or even illegally anywhere else in digital form. There have been attempts at rippers but the site uses an image scramble to combat those, so maybe some kind of program that could unscramble images would help? They have a library of over 4000 manga so it would undoubtedly be a major task, but it's a race against time.

Like...this whole project has me so confused. How do we access the files that have been archived? I see large datasets hosted on archive.org, but how are we supposed to be able to search for anything, especially the archivebot-GO packs? Using archive.org's search function is practically awful as it is

I have some storage and compute laying around and would like to contribute some as a staging server, as my warriors often seem to be bottlenecked at this end.

The only guide i found is this: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Dev/Staging and i think it could be written a bit more comprehensive. is there a more comprehensive way to do this?

For a long time now I've been trying to find a particular game:

Tl;dr It was called Starship and it was found via the Yahoo games list here:

https://imgur.com/KmfuXZJ

https://web.archive.org/web/19961129221717/http://www8.yahoo.com/Recreation/Games/Computer_Games/Titles/

Unfortunately the Archive link is broken and the game was gone before Internet Archive was a thing. I've looked pretty much everywhere, downloaded dozens of game collection ISOs hoping it was in one. no dice.

Since I'm back on the hunt I figured I should maybe ask here and see if anyone has a collection of particularly obscure games from the 90s that contains this game.

Has anyone archived the entirety of Manacled by Senlinyu? It's going to be removed from AO3 at the end of the year and it's not all on the Web Archive (which still isn't working properly). Also, there needs to be a full archive of TwoSetViolin videos since yesterday as they got privated a couple weeks ago.

The PCLab forum, a polish community operating since 2002 and serving ~1.3 million posts, is shutting down on the 30th of November 2024.

Official statement [machine translated]:

Dear User,

Please be informed that in 30 days, i.e. November 30, 2024, the PC LAB Forum Website will be closed.

The Administrator of the PC LAB Forum Website - Ringier Axel Springer Polska sp. z o.o. with its registered office in Warsaw: will terminate all services of the PC LAB Forum Website with one month's notice.

The Administrator of the PC LAB Forum Service informs that:

As of November 29, 2024, all services of the PC LAB Forum Service will be terminated. The important reason justifying the termination is the closure of the PC LAB Forum Service.

[...]

After the announcement of the closure of the Forum Service from October 30, 2024, the creation of new accounts in the PC LAB Forum Service will not be possible.

With the closure of the PC LAB Forum Service, i.e. on November 29, 2024, the PC LAB Forum Content Directory will no longer be available. Until then, PC LAB Forum Users can access their content in the “Profile” tab, where they have the possibility to copy or archive it in the form of screenshots. [...]

Worth noting:

• The forum operates on Invision Community
  • Topics are assigned an ID incremented from 1
  • \https://forum.pclab.pl/topic/{topic_id}-any_character` will return a redirect to a properly named URL. Example: forum.pclab.pl/topic/1379198-a > forum.pclab.pl/topic/1379198-zamknięcie-forum/
• Not behind Cloudflare, doesn't seem to be behind any rate-limiter at first glance

I really hope this could get archived,as there is a lot of IT history that will go down the drain with the site.

I noticed on http://warrior.archiveteam.org/ that the link to download the appliance goes to https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior3/

However, it seems the latest version is actually at

https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior4/

thanks