Xanga

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Xanga
The Blogging Community
The Blogging Community
URL http://www.xanga.com/
Status Closing
Archiving status In progress...
Archiving type Unknown
Project source https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/xanga-grab
Project tracker here
IRC channel #jenga (on hackint)

Another fucking forum, another fucking bullshit we are going to make you pay but we don't really want to honest.

Xanga is a blogging community which is [going to be relaunched] as a paid service. The users will be able to download archives of their current blogs until July the 15th, after which the site will either shut down due to fundraising failure, or get relaunched as a Wordpress-powered version (existing blogs apparently will be (?) preserved on this new platform, though it's very unclear.)

Prior work

Previously a minor grab was done to test the feasibility of grabbing Xanga. This can be seen on the Internet Archive.

What now?

The project for the warriors has been resurrected.

The list of usernames that is present on IA has been loaded and is currently being crunched while we try to collect as many usernames as possible.

Current upload location is only IA


How can I help?

1. Run the task in the warrior

2. Help collect usernames:

mkdir ./xanga
cd ./xanga
wget https://raw.github.com/Cameron-D/xanga-usernames/master/fetchusernames.py
chmod +x ./fetchusernames.py
./fetchusernames.py

Allow the script to run, it'll continue to grab files until you kill it, or touch ./STOP in the directory the script is in.