Hi! Regarding the PG Offline tool that you linked: in a Reddit thread about the closure of Yahoo! groups, a person identifying themselves as the author of PG Offline has posted:
evildrome 1 point · 11 hours ago
If you want to backup the posts, photos & files from this group you can use my program called PG Offline.
It has a 14 day free trial which will give ample time to download your group.
It has a 14 day trial after which you can no longer download from YG! but you can still read and search the downloaded archive.
So, if you can DL your group in 14 days, you’ve won a watch haven’t you?
The lack of a download facility after the group has been deleted by Yahoo isn’t exactly going to be an issue is it?
Cheers,
Wilson Logan (PGO Creator).
So it sounds like 1) we absolutely have the software creator's blessing to use the software free for this purpose (yay!), and 2) if I understand correctly, the software will still be usable when the 14-day trial period has elapsed, it's just that you can't download anything else from Yahoo! after that point.
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Date: 2019-10-18 12:53 am (UTC)So it sounds like 1) we absolutely have the software creator's blessing to use the software free for this purpose (yay!), and 2) if I understand correctly, the software will still be usable when the 14-day trial period has elapsed, it's just that you can't download anything else from Yahoo! after that point.