Ex.ua

ex.ua
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URL	ex.ua
Status	Upcoming...
Archiving status	Template:Not started
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

ex.ua was the 11th largest website in Ukraine. It allowed you to create user accounts then store files of almost any size under that account.

The notice on the front page of the website appeared on the 18th of November 2016. Public access was disabled on the 1st of December, but the API has not been turned of yet. The website is shutting down the 31st of December 2016.

Archiving

The XSPF files are still available from the website. These files contain URLs that 301 redirect to the actual file for download.

The XSPF URLs are formatted like ex.ua/filelist/[0-9]+.xspf. URLs inside the XSPF file are formatted like ex.ua/get/[0-9]+, which give a 301 redirect to the file for download. The Wayback Machine was allowed access to the file past the 301 redirect on /get/ URL and has archived quite some files from the website.

If a file has been deleted, the /get/ URL will redirect to a /view/ URL.

The Wayback machine has archived an unknown percentage of the user accounts and file lists.

Discovery

On a search engine, search with 'site:ex.ua'. This will yield many results for files. The links of these results might not be accessible, but the files can still be downloaded using the above method.

Note that the results will get be removed because they are not working anymore.

Warrior project

A Warrior project is being written for this website. All XSPF files and /get/ URLs without the file they redirect to will be archived. Only on request the file the /get/ URL redirects to will be archived, due to the total size of the data. Only /get/ URLs suggested to us will be archived through the warrior project.

The XSPF and /get/ URLs will be brute-forced.

Still-working

For some reason http://www.ex.ua/user/username URLs still work, and return a list of a user's friends. This needs to be dumped so a friend graph can be recreated.

It has also been found that http://www.ex.ua/user_say?login=username will retrieve a list of things a user talked about - namely, the files they shared. This is the only known way to associate a given folder with the user who created that folder, and is thus a high priority.

Links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EX.UA
• Shutdown information: https://torrentfreak.com/major-cyberlocker-ex-ua-to-shut-down-amid-police-crackdown-161118/