It's definitely not pretty, and I have no idea if it will work with anyone else's feed, but I think this kludgy script I wrote might actually succeed in downloading my entire feed to my hard drive.
Micah,
Kevin (aka ThreadKilla),
vicster.,
Stephen Mack,
Tamara J. B.,
SAM,
Joe,
Steven Perez,
bentley,
Adam B,
Jenny H.,
John (bird whisperer),
RudĩϐЯaЯïan,
and
Jennifer Dittrich
liked this
Or end up in an infinite loop somewhere and take up all the free space.
- Victor Ganata
Now that my backup is running, I am suddenly reluctant to create new posts :D
- Victor Ganata
*fingers crossed that it works.
- bentley
The script has gotten to late 2011, which about 20,000 posts in…. Still four years worth of posts to go! #halfwaythere
- Victor Ganata
Does your script expand all comments and all long comments?
- Andrew C (✔)
Nope, it's pretty crude. I'm just downloading the raw HTML, really.
- Victor Ganata
Although on the individual posts, they're already expanded, right?
- Victor Ganata
Does Claudio's script go all the way back now? I might try that as well. One can never have too many backups, right?
- Victor Ganata
on individual posts, all comment threads are expanded, but exceptionally long individual comments are still folded up, I think. Not sure if that's just presentation or if they're actually not downloaded until you click to expand.
- Andrew C (✔)
I've gotten to early 2009, which is about 28,000 posts in :) #almostthere
- Victor Ganata
Late 2008, just past 30,000 posts. I think I'm going to suspend the script though and resume when I get home….
- Victor Ganata
Hah, Google Reader posts :D
- Victor Ganata
So it has taken more than 2 hours to get to about 32,000 posts and it's still going. Welp, CTRL-Z for now….
- Victor Ganata
Resumed. Still going!
- Victor Ganata
I've realized I didn't really get comments or likes on my feed until early 2009.
- Victor Ganata
D'oh, just realized that Friendfeed saved pics to i.friendfeed.com instead of m.friendfeed-media.com early on. I guess I shouldn't have hard coded URLs….
- Victor Ganata
LOL, my loop stopped short one page. Needs more debugging.
- Victor Ganata
So three hours to pull 32,490 posts (give or take)
- Victor Ganata
Heh, this is the very first page of my feed: http://friendfeed.com/aswang...
- Victor Ganata
My first post with a real time stamp is July 11, 2007 http://friendfeed.com/aswang...
- Victor Ganata
I think I might succeed in downloading all the posts I commented on, too. Let's see how many hours this is going to take.
- Victor Ganata
*fingers still crossed*
- bentley
Looks like it finished. I will probably make another pass and download all the css stylesheets, but downloading people's background images might be too much :D
- Victor Ganata
I'm amazed you made posts as far back as December 31, 1969. :-P
- John (bird whisperer)
Yay! You got the comments and likes, too?
- bentley
I dunno if I'll do the likes, but we still have time :D
- Victor Ganata