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.

13 comments:

Caleb said...

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

Unknown said...

AAAAAAHHH VB! Hiss!


:)

Mike Lewis said...

i agree with kyle.

Roscoe said...

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

Unknown said...

I never purported to be anything but.

_J_ said...

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

or, better, a .txt document?

Unknown said...

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.

Caleb said...

Point for Kyle.

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