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It's been stable for a long time (since the late 90s), long enough for some software to be developed to do backups of it. | It's been stable for a long time (since the late 90s), long enough for some software to be developed to do backups of it. | ||
== Yahoo Group Archiver == | |||
The [http://sourceforge.net/projects/grabyahoogroup/ Yahoo Group Archiver] is a Perl script which allows an export of "the messages (without the attachments), everything from the files section and all the images from the photo section along with their hierarchy on Yahoo". | |||
It appears that, if you get the "Couldn't get message count" error when trying to use it, the solution is to edit the yahoo2maildir.pl file and replace the bottom line <code>my $url = $HTTP::URI_CLASS->new($redirect, $base)->abs($base);</code> (under the heading <code>sub GetJSRedirect</code>) with <code><nowiki>my $url = "http://groups.yahoo.com/group/$group/messages/$begin_msgid"; </nowiki></code> | |||
More frustratingly, it appears that Yahoo blocks your IP temporarily after hitting some invisible limit of data downloaded. It's unknown if there is a solution. | |||
== Software for backups == | == Software for backups == | ||
Revision as of 08:48, 25 December 2010
Yahoo! Groups is Yahoo's email service; it's the result of the acquisition of eGroups and some other Yahoo! stuff.
It's been stable for a long time (since the late 90s), long enough for some software to be developed to do backups of it.
Yahoo Group Archiver
The Yahoo Group Archiver is a Perl script which allows an export of "the messages (without the attachments), everything from the files section and all the images from the photo section along with their hierarchy on Yahoo".
It appears that, if you get the "Couldn't get message count" error when trying to use it, the solution is to edit the yahoo2maildir.pl file and replace the bottom line my $url = $HTTP::URI_CLASS->new($redirect, $base)->abs($base); (under the heading sub GetJSRedirect) with my $url = "http://groups.yahoo.com/group/$group/messages/$begin_msgid";
More frustratingly, it appears that Yahoo blocks your IP temporarily after hitting some invisible limit of data downloaded. It's unknown if there is a solution.
Software for backups
- Yahoo Group Archiver, Sourceforge