Google Groups Files

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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.

Script

Requirements

(ba)sh, wget, grep

Usage

./ggroups_zipdl.sh

Issues

It doesn't do rate limiting and will run into a temporary ban eventually. If you know how to avoid that, talk to ndurner on #archiveteam, send a patch or fork it.