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Video downloading: started 2014-12-01, finished 2014-12-10. Downloaded ~3,200,000 videos. | Video downloading: started 2014-12-01, finished 2014-12-10. Downloaded ~3,200,000 videos. | ||
User pages downloading: started 2014-12-11, | User pages downloading: started 2014-12-11, finished 2014-12-14. | ||
== Download Your Data == | == Download Your Data == |
Revision as of 14:02, 14 December 2014
Viddy | |
URL | http://www.viddy.com |
Status | Closing |
Archiving status | In progress... |
Archiving type | Unknown |
Project source | viddy-grab, viddy-items |
Project tracker | viddy |
IRC channel | #viddiot (on hackint) |
Viddy is a video hosting service like Instagram. The service has its own url shortener service viddy.it, just to make sure the impact of the closure is even worse.
Viddy announced to be shutting down December 15th 2014 after joining Fullscreen.
See also Epic, another Viddy site, with the same shutdown date. ArchiveTeam saves that with tools developed for Viddy.
Shutdown
Message on viddy.com website:
- "Viddy is powering down, but you’ll hear from us again soon…
- We’ve been building something new and exciting since joining Fullscreen in January, and as we focus on the future, Viddy will be pulled from the App Store on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014, and will officially shut down Monday, December 15th, 2014."
Site Structure
- www.viddy.com/JustinBieber/v/soundcheck-LDS3p9
- www.viddy.com/media/af2745dd-d085-4b3a-9017-085f72f6334a
- www.viddy.it/Syv46W
API Scraping
Through scraping the public API (reference for dedicated API here - this mostly applies to the public API: http://viddy.com/v1/... ), computerfreak is compiling a list of user IDs (currently ~4 million retrieved) and media IDs (currently ~500k retrieved). These are available here (user IDs in the viddy_user* files, and the media data (UserID, MediaID, comment_count, like_count, view_count) in the viddy_medias* files).
The user IDs were obtained by doing a BFS on user's followers (script stopped after about 2 days of running), and the medias were then obtained by getting the media listings for each user. Obviously this is not every single user or every single video, but it is certainly a good starting point. As of Nov. 29, computerfreak is continuously running a script to get new user IDs and is pulling off the new IDs and fetching the associated media info.
How can I help?
Content discovery
Viddy item discovery is being done through the URLTeam project, scraping the www.viddy.it shortener. If you want to take part, join that project, see details on its page. (You'll get tasks of other shorteners as well, they are distributed randomly. You should start multiple threads.)
Content grab
Running a Warrior
You can start up a Warrior and there select Viddy. (If you don't really care what you are archiving, select ArchiveTeam's Choice instead, as at some points ArchiveTeam may priorize another project.)
Running the script manually
If you use Linux and you're a bit familiar with it, you can try running the script directly.
The instructions can be found at github.com/ArchiveTeam/viddy-grab.
Some additional information |
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Don't forget to replace YOURNICKHERE with your nickname.
The number after If you want to stop the script, please do it gracefully if possible. To do so, create an empty file named STOP in the folder of the script (terminal command: If you see "Project code is out of date", kill the script, go to its folder ( |
Donating to the Internet Archive
Content downloaded by the ArchiveTeam will be uploaded to the Internet Archive, where it will be stored and be available – hopefully – forever. However, storing it costs thousands of dollars in the long run. So, if you can afford, please consider donating to the Internet Archive, so that this piece of history can be kept for us all. http://archive.org/donate
Archiving status
2014 November: Discovery started through URLTeam project, and user computerfreak also did an efficient discovery.
Video downloading: started 2014-12-01, finished 2014-12-10. Downloaded ~3,200,000 videos.
User pages downloading: started 2014-12-11, finished 2014-12-14.
Download Your Data
- "We’ve made it easy for you to download your content before this date [December 15th 2014]! Please click the button [...] and log in with your username / password to get started."[1]
The link: http://www.viddy.com/download