Tuesday, December 15, 2009

House of Agglutination Cybermanuscript Reclamation Project

Yahoo Groups doesn't seem to have a way to pull the message history of a group down in a file. So, a while ago I whipped up a dandy little .vbs so that should Yahoo ever decide to do to its inactive groups what it has done to Geocities this important set of documents might still be preserved. It took awhile to run, and copied a fair amount of wrapper html from the Yahoo page, but I believe that was skill, vigilance, and a little luck I might one day have to offer you a version free of spurious content.

For the time being, if you'd like a copy let me know (the full version is about 9 MB, I also have a trimmed one that I haven't proofed only 5 MB). The .vbs (you'll surely note my genius) is comment #1.
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13 comments:

  1. CalebDecember 15, 2009 at 12:30 AM

    Dim objShell
    Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

    Dim i
    i = 1

    Dim url
    url = "http://groups.yahoo.com/group/House_Of_Agglutination/messages/"

    Wscript.Sleep 10000

    While i < 1571
    ObjShell.SendKeys "^l"
    ObjShell.SendKeys url & i
    ObjShell.SendKeys "{Enter}"

    Wscript.Sleep 20000

    ObjShell.SendKeys "^u"

    Wscript.Sleep 10000

    ObjShell.SendKeys "^a"
    Wscript.Sleep 4000

    ObjShell.SendKeys "^c"
    Wscript.Sleep 4000

    ObjShell.SendKeys "%{f4}"
    Wscript.Sleep 4000

    ObjShell.SendKeys "%{TAB}"
    Wscript.Sleep 4000

    ObjShell.SendKeys "^v"
    Wscript.Sleep 4000

    ObjShell.SendKeys "^{END}"
    ObjShell.SendKeys "{Enter}"
    ObjShell.SendKeys "{Enter}"
    i = i + 30
    Wscript.Sleep 4000

    ObjShell.SendKeys "%{Tab}"
    Wscript.Sleep 2000

    Wend

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  2. UnknownDecember 15, 2009 at 10:39 AM

    AAAAAAHHH VB! Hiss!


    :)

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  3. Mike LewisDecember 15, 2009 at 11:31 AM

    i agree with kyle.

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  4. RoscoeDecember 15, 2009 at 12:43 PM

    Do I get to pull a **NERRRRRRDSSSSS!**-style full on Ogre here?

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  5. UnknownDecember 15, 2009 at 10:48 PM

    I never purported to be anything but.

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  6. _J_December 18, 2009 at 9:47 PM

    Couldn't we copy the text into a word document?

    or, better, a .txt document?

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  7. UnknownDecember 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM

    I have to assume it is in a txt file, the vbs is just the script he ran to pull the raw data and put it into the file.

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  8. CalebDecember 19, 2009 at 12:09 AM

    Point for Kyle.

    ReplyDelete
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