Yeah, it
sucks. The Tomy Tutor users group has been there for years, and I
guess we'll jump over to groups.io. I managed to archive everything last
night.
What's your strategy for archiving material off YahooGroups? Their Files and
Photo (photostreams) sections are so heavily Javascript-encrusted that it's
not at all easy to bulk archive from them. I tried a few tools (httrack, wget,
curl) with no valid results, but I only used some basic settings.
For the messages, I used
https://github.com/andrewferguson/YahooGroups-Archiver
Unfortunately, the (rather inadequate) Y!G API for files makes it difficult
to iterate over files in a directory tree. I ended up manually downloading
them, since it was only about 30 files and not worth ginning up something
to scrape them. Some people have used
https://github.com/csaftoiu/yahoo-groups-backup
to get everything but it needs a MongoDB instance which seemed kind of
overkill for a one-time dump.
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