forum-dl
Scrape posts, threads from forums, news aggregators, mail archives, export to JSONL, mailbox, WARC (by mikwielgus)
warctools
Command line tools and libraries for handling and manipulating WARC files (and HTTP contents) (by internetarchive)
| forum-dl | warctools | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1 | |
| 61 | 141 | |
| - | 3.5% | |
| 9.0 | 10.0 | |
| 8 months ago | over 3 years ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
forum-dl
Posts with mentions or reviews of forum-dl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-29.
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Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?
You can try forum-dl, a forum scraping tool I've been writing for this purpose: https://github.com/mikwielgus/forum-dl
It's single-threaded, alpha-quality software, and still isn't compatible with many forums and themes. But it can export WARCs and may just happen to work for you.
- Forum-dl – convert forums, news aggregators, mail archives to JSONL/mailbox/WARC
- forum-dl - Download/archive posts and threads from internet forums from command-line
- forum-dl – Download/archive posts/threads from internet forums on command-line
warctools
Posts with mentions or reviews of warctools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-29.
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Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?
You can try https://replayweb.page/ as a test for viewing a WARC file. I do think you'll run into problems though with wanting to browse interconnected links in a forum format, but try this as a first step.
One potential option but definitely a bit more work would be, once you have all the warc files downloaded, you can open them all in python using the warctools module and maybe beautifulsoup and potentially parse/extract all of the data embedded in the WARC archives into your own "fresh" HTML webserver.
https://github.com/internetarchive/warctools
What are some alternatives?
When comparing forum-dl and warctools you can also consider the following projects:
vbulletin - Ruby Gem to fetch data from vBulletin Forums