I think archiving sites such as reddit is very important, and I’m glad that it’s happening. And yet here I am on Lemmy, a perfect opportunity where I could almost effortlessly archive the entire social media site, including every single post, every comment, every edit, every deletion, and I basically have zero drive to do...
There’s always exactly one screw that won’t let go and I end up stripping it beyond hope, so I rarely get the platters out. I only want (need!) the magnets anyway!
I have scraped a lot of links from instagram and threads using selenium python. It was a good learning experience. I will be running that script for few days more and will see how many more media links I can scrape from instagram and threads....
I know, stupid question to a datahoarder. My point is that archiving all of instagram or threads would be impossible even for ArchiveTeam, much less a single person. Are these random posts, or ones you care about?
Thesaurizant, ergo sum
I think archiving sites such as reddit is very important, and I’m glad that it’s happening. And yet here I am on Lemmy, a perfect opportunity where I could almost effortlessly archive the entire social media site, including every single post, every comment, every edit, every deletion, and I basically have zero drive to do...
Does anyone else harvest the magnets and platters from old drives as a monument to selfhosting history? (lemmy.world)
scraped media links from instagram and threads (gist.github.com)
I have scraped a lot of links from instagram and threads using selenium python. It was a good learning experience. I will be running that script for few days more and will see how many more media links I can scrape from instagram and threads....