Blingee
Blingee | |
URL | http://blingee.com/ |
Status | Online! |
Archiving status | Partially saved |
Archiving type | Unknown |
Project source | blingee-grab |
Project tracker | blingee |
IRC channel | #tragedee (on hackint) |
Blingee is an image hosting and editing website. The site offers web-based tools for adding special effects to images, such as animation and sparkles. On August 14, 2015, Blingee announced they were closing on August 25, 2015.[1] On August 19, Blingee announced that they would not be shutting down.[2]
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Site structure
Blingees and Postcards:
- Each "blingee" page can be accessed at http://blingee.com/blingee/view/ID
- ID is an incremental number; the first is http://blingee.com/blingee/view/1. A more recent ID is http://blingee.com/blingee/view/135106416
- Blingee comments are paginated and can be accessed at http://blingee.com/blingee/ID/comments (example)
- Non-existent IDs redirect to the homepage; deleted/private (?) IDs redirect to http://blingee.com/account/login
- Example deleted or hidden image: http://blingee.com/blingee/view/134979862
- Blingee directory: http://blingee.com/blingee/directory/page/1
Stamps:
- Each stamp page can be accessed at http://blingee.com/stamp/view/ID
- Also incremental; the first is http://blingee.com/stamp/view/1, more recent is http://blingee.com/stamp/view/8414917
- Stamps don't seem to have a comment feature.
- An incomplete list of stamps: http://blingee.com/stamp/list
- Stamps used by the Blingee editor are stored as SWF files, which contain a set of transparent PNGs
- SWFs are indexed by tag, http://blingee.com/stamp/embedded_list?query=TAG&page=1
- The SWF url can be found as an AES encrypted string, which decrypts XML containing the stamp ID, the SWF url, and a smaller thumbnail SWF url
- The AES key is rAI1P8bpXoReutED8XOTT0lh26MWhWz87IH4t39LjJp3wxLkEHDKE2Er
Groups:
- Group pages can be accessed at http://blingee.com/group/GROUP_ID
- Also incremental. First group is http://blingee.com/group/1, more recent is http://blingee.com/group/89403
- Each group can have its own forum.
- A paginated list of topics is available at http://blingee.com/group/GROUP_ID/topics
- Each topic is paginated (15 comments per page) and available at http://blingee.com/group/GROUP_ID/topic/TOPIC_ID (example)
- TOPIC_ID is not incremental.
- A paginated list of group members is available at http://blingee.com/group/GROUP_ID/members?list_type=4097
- An incomplete list of groups: http://blingee.com/group/list/page/1/type/4098
Competitions:
- First competition page is http://blingee.com/competition/view/1, more recent is http://blingee.com/competition/view/6138
- Each competition page has a paginated list of rankings at http://blingee.com/competition/rankings/ID (available after the competition is over)
Challenges:
- First challenge page is http://blingee.com/challenge/view/1, more recent is http://blingee.com/challenge/view/7100
- Each challenge page has a paginated list of rankings at http://blingee.com/challenge/rankings/ID (available after the challenge is over)
- There is also an entries page (http://blingee.com/challenge/entries/ID), but that requires a login.
Badges:
- First badge is http://blingee.com/badge/view/1, most recent is http://blingee.com/badge/view/4926
- Each badge has a paginated list of winners at http://blingee.com/badge/winner_list/ID
- The actual badge (a small gif) is located in the description div.
People:
- Profile pages don't seem to be accessible via ID, although apparently each user is represented internally by an incremental number.
- There is actually a way to get (all?) the usernames. Each badge has a list of blingees by a user that have won that badge, accessible via an ID (e.g. http://blingee.com/badge/view/42/user/1). Importantly, that page has a link to the user's profile. The ID seems to be the user ID, as /user/1 is blingee_team and /user/2 is a co-founder of Blingee. Some of them say "Oops, Error", which could correspond to a deleted or private profile.
- From this, it's easy to get a list of usernames very quickly. According to my search, there are approximately 22,677,110 users on Blingee.
- ... and growing because the signup page is still active.
- Each profile page can have comments. A full paginated list is available at http://blingee.com/profile/USERNAME/comments (example)
- An incomplete list of users: http://blingee.com/people
Misc.
- URL shortener: http://bln.gs/ (ex. http://bln.gs/b/28fss0 and http://bln.gs/b/1)
- Codes are base 36 numbers. For example, 424242 = 93ci and http://bln.gs/b/93ci = http://blingee.com/blingee/view/424242
- S3 server: http://image.blingee.com.s3.amazonaws.com/
Misc:
- List of items that should be re-grabbed due to old bug (not in tracker yet): https://gist.github.com/garyrh/e695dc4821aba94d9a9b
Archives
Between August 16 and October 8, 2015, ArchiveTeam downloaded more than 6 terabytes of content, but then Blingee started banning our IPs – and also with respect to the fact that they are not shutting down, the project got suspended.
Bulk archive files can be found here, and the content should also be reachable through the Wayback Machine.