Friendfeed Export and Format (v0.51) for OS X Yosemite (will probably not work in older OS X versions). Download: Here's the link to a zip file that contains the .app file: http://wittman.org/ff...
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— FFexp.php & FFExp2HTMLex.php - "Paging Edition" (customization of Claudio Cicali's FF backup and archive-to-HTML scripts by Micah Wittman. App wrapper integration by Micah Wittman)
- Micah
IMPORTANT: You'll need to allow unsigned apps. Here: System Preferences > Security and Privacy > Allow apps downloaded from > Anywhere
- Micah
Mac'liler bunu görsün hadi yine iyisiniz bak Mayka abimizin kıyakçılığı yerinde v_v
- Alfonker Tapir
\o/
- Alfonker Tapir
Hold on, technical difficulty with download.
- Micah
Interesting. I thought I'd see what happens on Snow Leopard. It doesn't even let you unzip it. Gives Error 1. (Not complaining, just FYI...)
- Spidra Webster
abi ya vindows? brother i uze vindows
- Rendetullah
OK. Try re-downloading from: http://wittman.org/ff...
- Micah
After downloading from your new link above, unzipping and double-clicking, I get a plain white window with no labels or anything, only the three red-yellow-green buttons. On the menu bar, the word "nightrain" and nothing happens when I click on it. That's all I'm getting.
- bentley
Alright. I need to fix the packaging of the app. Be back in 30 min to an hour.
- Micah
I'm able to download and install just fine, but running I get the "limit exceeded" error. (OS 10.10.2)
- Jennifer Dittrich
Ok, good to know the package may be ok. Jenn, regarding the limit exceeded, I'm not surprised because it's basically running the same way behind the scene's as the bare script. I will try to add a memory setting adjustment that may or may not make a difference, but we'll see.
- Micah
Ah, that makes sense. I figure I'm going to have to basically dump most of my feed to backup the rest :/
- Jennifer Dittrich
it's working for me
- Mike Nencetti
vindvs lazim admin duy beni
- Rendetullah
I redownloaded and I'm still getting nothing. But I already have a backup (no Discussion), so don't worry about fixing it for me if it works for everyone else.
- bentley
ahahah abi ya admin duy beni mi yahasha. micah turkish windows users are wondering if you are planning to create a windows version as well.
- Alfonker Tapir
Alfonker, yes, that's the plan. The base application is supposed cross-platform, and I'll be trying to confirm it will work tonight. Stay tuned.
- Micah
The second download worked great for me on 10.9.5.
- Meg VMeg
It appears to be working, but I'm not sure where it's downloading to?
- Mrs. Alix May
Yeah, and I already forgot where it downloaded to :(
- Meg VMeg
It tells you when it finishes running. Otherwise open app and just click Show Path button in upper right corner, then scroll below to see message.
- Micah
It just gives me a blank line.
- Mrs. Alix May
yes odd. I can see the files in terminal, but not in Finder, even after showing hidden files.
- Mike Nencetti
HOW TO MANUALLY FIND YOU DATA DIRECTORY: Ctrl-Click the ffexp.app icon > Show Package Contents > then drill down through directories: Contents > MacOS > www. In www you should have ff_stream_<your username>.json — this is your raw data. Also: html_output folder has all your HTML files if you converted the data with the app. The ff_media folder has all the images and attachment files.
- Micah
thanks!
- Mike Nencetti
❤ Thank you so much, Micah.
- Mrs. Alix May
Thank you!
- Meg VMeg
FYI: Deleted previous downloads, downloaded it again, unzipped, double-clicked. Still getting only the blank nightrain screen like before.
- bentley
Ok so I ran it for the past hour and it pretty much did the same thing as when I ran Claudio's script directly last week. Namely it starts repeating itself after the 10101st row. Which I thought I had read somewhere that they had fixed. And looking at the script version here, you are a couple of point versions behind (1.2 vs the current 1.5). So I had to manually quit the php processes through Activity Monitor and never got to check out the conversion process.
- rønin
It's running now - I had to make my feed public (even with the remote thingie, it didn't want to go) - was considering doing this anyway later, so we'll see how far it gets. At the moment, I'm seeing a lot of image files getting saved, so that's something :D
- Jennifer Dittrich
Jenn, oh that's good.
- Micah
Ronin, I'm updating the code to Claudio's current version, may be out tomorrow. Windows version also almost there. The 10K limit issue isn't likely to change, however.
- Micah
So, if it is looping, how do you tell? It's still enumerating pages, but it looks like it's recording the same image (and skipping it) every few pages. [I'm in the 250's at the moment, and I've reached the end of my feed in HTML at 35,670.]
- Jennifer Dittrich
To avoid looping, download the 1.5 ffexp.PHP script. When it detects a loop, stops automatically.
- Ubikindred
Ah, gotcha. I'll stop what I've got running tonight, and retry tomorrow evening.
- Jennifer Dittrich
(For the reached maximum allowed memory limit, in xampp/windows it's sufficient to increase the maximum allowed memory size from the default value to an higher value, i.e. 2048 MB, in php.ini. Unfortunately I don't know what is the configuration file in MacOS X environment)
- Ubikindred
(it's php.ini lowercase, important in a case sensitive environment; the path depends on which php you are running, the one coming with the OS or the one provided with MAMP)
- vic
(Sorry, for any ununderstandable reason, my corrector writes PHP instead of php)
- Ubikindred
more here: http://stackoverflow.com/questio...
- vic
Holla at me if there's ever a Windows version?
- Zulema ❧ spicy cocoa tart
The script is universal, you must have a working php engine to run the script (i.e. in Windows the esiest way is to install xampp, putting the script in the c:\xampp\www\php folder and running it in a DOS prompt
- Ubikindred
I plan on having the Windows version out night.
- Micah
(Sorry, I was talking about Claudio's php script naturally)
- Ubikindred
No problem, understood - my version is still essentially his script with an interface and php environment wrapper.
- Micah
New version (v0.6) for OS X released: Download: http://wittman.org/ff... - has Claudio's most recent script version (1.5) integrated in now.
- Micah
Ooooh. I'll give that a go in just a sec.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Rats. Still can't use it on Snow Leopard. I'm going to have to see if I can get Claudio's script working again.
- Spidra Webster
I'm running it now - thanks, Micah!
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
...69 pages after 18 mins and still going
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
..and done on 71 pages
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
It goes back to 2011. I can see up to p. 34 in the html directory. Are the other pages somewhere else?
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
It worked, I got 50 pages (so, about a year.) More or less what I expected. I'll likely do a Tumblr entries purge at some point and re-run, which should get me a lot more of the other entries.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Trying with the new one. The old one supposedly backed up 2000+ pages, but nothing in the html directory.
- Mrs. Alix May
Alix, try re-dowloading the app (it's now version 0.6). I fixed an issue with the HTML file rendering. Note: even when no HTML files are created (like backup only mode), your raw data can be there nonetheless.
- Micah
I dl'ed and re-ran it again last night. Looks good, I haven't had a chance to look into the data but it did convert and finish instead of looping.
- rønin
I downloaded and ran it again without images, and it backed up 102, but only converted to html up to p. 50
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Looking a the raw data json data, it goes back to Jan 2011, so the early years must be beyond what can be downloaded for me. Edit: 50 pages x 200 posts per page =10,000 posts (which seems to be the max allowed).
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
I have back to 2010. ❤ (also 50 pages for me, Higlet)
- Mrs. Alix May
A new, consolidated app install instructions page: http://wittman.org/ff...
- Micah
I need to backup Elena's feed as well. Do I need to move anything, or will this create a new directory automatically?
- Eric @ CS Techcast
So is there a consensus on how far back we can query? My ff_stream_username.json file goes to about 2010 Feb 9 - I think it's exactly 10101 entries
- Ankush Narula