Comments on: December 14th, the end of Yahoo! groups https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/10/17/december-14th-the-end-of-yahoo-groups/ Fun with Virtualization Sun, 20 Oct 2019 07:46:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/10/17/december-14th-the-end-of-yahoo-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-229119 Sun, 20 Oct 2019 07:46:39 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9835#comment-229119 In reply to Nico.

Great, I grabbed all my subscriptions!

Now to find interesting things.. Sadly so many are members only, like objc… So strange.

Walled gardens just collapse onto themselves. Can’t wait for the inevitable Facebook collapse.

]]> By: neozeed https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/10/17/december-14th-the-end-of-yahoo-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-229059 Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:35:12 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9835#comment-229059 In reply to Nico.

It’s a little involved to get going, but I’m happily archiving groups! thanks!

]]> By: Nico https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/10/17/december-14th-the-end-of-yahoo-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-229029 Sat, 19 Oct 2019 01:05:56 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9835#comment-229029 Please run https://github.com/nsapa/yahoo-group-archiver/ against the restricted groups you want to backup.
You will need extract from your browser the T and Y cookie:
python2 yahoo-group-archiver/yahoo.py -u [YOUR_LOGIN] -p ‘[YOUR_PASSWORD]’ -ct ‘[T_COOKIE]’ -cy ‘[Y_COOKIE]’ pdos

]]> By: Peter Godwin https://virtuallyfun.com/2019/10/17/december-14th-the-end-of-yahoo-groups/comment-page-1/#comment-228937 Fri, 18 Oct 2019 08:16:29 +0000 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/?p=9835#comment-228937 Archive team are in the progress of backing up yahoo groups. https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Yahoo!_Groups

There’s also been some experiments for backing it up. https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK

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