detectorist-scraper

A scrapy spider to extract post, thread, and user information from a vBulletin forum to a MongoDB database. (by IanLondon)

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  • Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2024
    > I'm just not sure what the intermediate steps would be to get something usable like a vBulletin…

    Once you have a crawl, you'll likely want to convert that unstructured data to structured data. For example, if I look at https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/portal.php, the thread title and hierarchy is in

    , posts are in
    , etc. I see an old project (https://github.com/IanLondon/detectorist-scraper) that did this and may be a useful place to start, and I imagine there are others.

    Once you have the structured data, You can decide whether to use it to build a static site, to import it into another forum, etc.

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The primary programming language of detectorist-scraper is Python.


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