Yahoo Groups going away

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > 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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