There should be multiple back-ups of the important communities, so I don't want to stop any of you but I'm in process saving 638 Tolkien-related groups using Autoit's Inetget.
Any info on any moderator of any group on that list would be good. We should try to spread a list of locked groups around Tumblr with a project name like Unlocking Yahoo or something to try to reach moderators who have abandoned their groups. Or at least members of these groups who could save things on our behalf. Do you think the OTW would post it to give it some traction?
Re: The Great Purge
Here is an updated version:
There is an API provided here. There's also a list of Groups-scraping software on the page:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups
https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v1/groups/concatenative/messages/1/raw
If you use this API, it tells you how many posts are in the community after "totalRecords":
https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v1/groups/concatenative/messages?count=1
From the Archiveteam, this is a list of the names of many public Yahoo Groups. But not anywhere near all of them:
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AttWx8rXBtV-gsAD1rdmzrGDuiIE6g?e=tYQNcF
From the Archiveteam, this is a list of the metadata of many public Yahoo Groups. But not anywhere near all of them (14GB file):
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AttWx8rXBtV-gsAExsAo15VXYELjUw?e=WJtEoa
Here are some good lists of fandom Yahoo Groups though many on them are deleted now:
http://paula3001.bravepages.com/IRFTIA-mailinglists.html
There should be multiple back-ups of the important communities, so I don't want to stop any of you but I'm in process saving 638 Tolkien-related groups using Autoit's Inetget.
https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/functions/InetGet.htm
https://1drv.ms/t/s!AttWx8rXBtV-gsAKwAXENEIQW3D6BQ?e=jDGubc
But this is a list of groups I am locked out of. I have applied to join them but have gotten no response because they are possibly abandoned:
https://1drv.ms/t/s!AttWx8rXBtV-gsAFyubXjC6n_Ux1-Q?e=4plgbh
Any info on any moderator of any group on that list would be good. We should try to spread a list of locked groups around Tumblr with a project name like Unlocking Yahoo or something to try to reach moderators who have abandoned their groups. Or at least members of these groups who could save things on our behalf. Do you think the OTW would post it to give it some traction?