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HTML Stack to SMF Database
Stratovarius:
So over on GitP, RedMop has been able to snag the entire Wayback archive for both MMX and BG, in HTML format. What we don't have is a way to transform that into a Simple Machine Forums database, in case that's the only way to go about rebuilding the data.
Given there are a number of technically minded people on here, do we have any ideas on how that might be accomplished?
oslecamo:
Even if we can't find a way to directly transfer everything, having the html code would save a lot of work. I think I'll wait a day or two to see if that nice guy gets download links available
EDIT:Oh, wait, will still need to clean the code manually. Well, back to work.
Stratovarius:
GitHub link to the data
PlzBreakMyCampaign:
Not to poo the party, but what I found when I finally admitted to myself that MMB might not come back (first day was, meh, fluke. Second day was let's hope that tomorrow...) was that the internet archive was only useful for year-old threads, and even then didn't have more than 2 deep of the board.
So it was useful for finding how pages actually looked and as another snapshot compared to bing and google cache. But I found myself actually using bing and google cache because they simply held more pages than the internet archive. I thought someone requested that Wayback When go through the full site (you can do that, right?), but I only found one full-ish mirror of the site and it had holes...
oslecamo:
--- Quote from: Stratovarius on June 15, 2017, 05:14:55 AM ---GitHub link to the data
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I downloaded it but how do I open it? It's mostly a giant pile of files with no configurtation like .html.
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