Google Groups Files

Google is challenging AT again...

This notice appears on Google Groups pages:

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Zipped versions of the pages and files associated with this group will be available for download until August 31, 2011. After this date, this feature and the zip file downloads will be turned off permanently.

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A script is available that searches Google Groups directories and downloads the ZIP files of individual groups. The script uses a Google App Engine hosted app for coordination.

Status

We need help with downloading, run the script with the "download" parameter

2011-06-04:

directories: new: 59926, done: 25585
groups: new 552075, done: 70804

2011-06-14:

directories: done: 76080
groups: done: 163749

2011-06-16:

directories: NEW: 80942, PROCESSING: 7, DONE_DIR: 81644
groups: NEW: 880230, PROCESSING: 97, ERROR: 5825, ADULT: 3893, DONE_GRP: 172148

2011-06-20:

directories: NEW: 71364, PROCESSING: 6, DONE_DIR: 101141 groups: NEW: 778080, PROCESSING: 290, ERROR: 10249, ADULT: 4177, DONE_GRP: 298122

Script

Requirements

(ba)sh, wget, grep, curl

Usage

• Normal operation

./ggroups_zipdl.sh

• Discover only (no downloads to store)

./ggroups_zipdl.sh discover

• Download only (no discovery of new groups)

./ggroups_zipdl.sh download

Issues

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