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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 63 points 6 months ago

I hope he has indexed everything he saved and can search it efficiently

[-] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 93 points 6 months ago

It says he's a saver, not a retriever!

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

Hell, he's not even golden!

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 18 points 6 months ago

Those things are lost in the great mines of Morediskspaceia

[-] ichmagrum@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

Better hope none of it is encrypted, he's definitely going to forget that password.

[-] don@lemm.ee 50 points 6 months ago

It’s the meticulous savers you should worry about. The savers smart enough to automate what they save, and fastidious enough to know every sector of what they’ve saved. Those savers may/may not save the whole galaxy.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 22 points 6 months ago

Save the cheerleader, save the world.

ctrl+s

[-] TacoNissan@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I save lots of 2000s kid's shows, for when my future kids grow up. No telling when they'll become lost media. I use filebot to automatically rename the files to TVDB standards, and so far I've collected 8tb. Do I have a problem?

[-] don@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago

Do I have a problem?

As long as you can afford to maintain your repository, no.

[-] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 33 points 6 months ago

Im in this picture and I dont like it. Saved for later.

[-] Rekonok@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 months ago

Same

I saved your comment too

[-] atocci@kbin.social 29 points 6 months ago
[-] Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 6 months ago

The only one who has the lost episodes of You Can’t Do That On Television.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

And Adventures In Wonderland, somehow.

[-] ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 17 points 6 months ago

Where's the large towers of 3 layer M-Disk Blu-rays?

[-] ichmagrum@feddit.de 1 points 6 months ago

In the room with all the old PCs they ever owned.

[-] jsh@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 months ago

The data hoooorder

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 16 points 6 months ago

People like this are the reason we will have records of this period of history in a thousand years.

[-] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

is that the archive.org guy?

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No archive.org guy uses his powers for good. This guy is an internet hoarder.

[-] shikogo@pawb.social 4 points 6 months ago

This guy has solved the entire lost media wiki and is keeping it all to himself.

[-] bumblebeebeard@reddthat.com 11 points 6 months ago

hello yes, I've archived this.

[-] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 months ago

It's me, but I don't have a beard

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 7 points 6 months ago

Hold up, does someone know how to save an entire site? I would really like to get the 5e wikidot archived in case Hasbro or whoever wants to shut it down for good.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Probably a browser extension these days. I had one back in the late 90's or early 2000's that would simply download the page you were on, as well as every page, image, audio file, etc. on every recursive link on that page.

This was back when most websites had a table of contents link somewhere, though. There are plenty of sites now that don't link to every page contained on the domain and are only accessible if you manually enter the URL or use dynamically created pages that only exist upon request.

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago

There's software that browses to the homepage of a site and starts traversing it all, saving it all in the process

[-] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

It won't save everything, but if a script follows every link recursively, most content should be reached that way. That's kind of what Google does but for one site instead of the internet.

If there is a search function try very simple queries.

The alternative of brute forcing links would be unfeasible, even if you are not rate limited by the site, due to the exponential complexity.

If you want to do something please look into api/scraping etikette like exponential back off.

[-] zzz@feddit.de 3 points 6 months ago

Link? And where can I upload a PDF* of the site to share with you? tmpfiles.org’s short duration probably won’t cut it…

*Although I’m certain The Saver™️ would only do full webarchive zips, for us casuals, the PDF export shall do (and be easier in day to day use)

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/

Honestly it's not the information so much as the way it's organized that I'd like to save. It is the best resource for putting together characters, currently.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

The internet is forever, whether it wants to be or not.

[-] ichmagrum@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

It's actually pretty selective. Recently tried reading an old webcomic, lots of dead links and the various web archive pages were very incomplete. I'm sure SOMEONE has it saved somewhere, but it doesn't look like they made it easily available to the general public.

[-] averyminya@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago

Somebody saaaaaave meeee

i have a deleted webpage in ecosia app

[-] Vonneks@lemmings.world 2 points 6 months ago

Trazyn the infinite type of fella

[-] Cheskaz@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

I will die thinking about how I didn't save Globvids Plague Doctors video.

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