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San Francisco's Progressive Paper of Record the San Francisco Bay Guardian has been terminated.
San Francisco's Progressive Paper of Record the San Francisco Bay Guardian has been terminated.
Gone is 40+ years of investigate reporting and journalism from www.sfbg.com
Gone is 40+ years of investigate reporting and journalism from www.sfbg.com
 
http://rss.sfbg.com is still around with a goodbye letter.


''' Issuu.com mirror
''' Issuu.com mirror


* PDF + JPG Issues from January 2011->October 2014 are available at http://issuu.com/sf.guardian
* PDF + JPG Issues from January 2011->October 2014 are available at http://issuu.com/sf.guardian
* Data format:
  Username : sf.guardian
  # This is the issuu.com account
   
  Name: 49.02
  # This is the issuu.com publication name


''' Issuu.com data format
Username : sf.guardian
  ''This is the issuu.com account
Name: 49.02
  ''This is the issuu.com publication name
Bay Guardian issue names for the 192 back issues are:
Bay Guardian issue names for the 192 back issues are:
* 45.11 - 45.52
* 45.11 - 45.52
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* 49.01 - 49.03  
* 49.01 - 49.03  


''' Issuu.com API for full PDFs
''' Issuu.com API
Issuu.com uses a Flash viewer to stream JPEGS, but the iPhone App has access to the full pdfs
 
Request information for a given issue name 49.02:
http://publication.issuu.com/sf.guardian/49.02/ios_1.json
reveals all of the pdfUrls for each page of that issue, eg :
"pdfUrl": "http://page-pdf.issuu.com/141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34/3.pdf"
 
NOTE: the covers are not pdfs, they are jpegs, and have null pdf fields:
"jpgUrl": "http://image.issuu.com/141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34/jpg/page_1.jpg"


* Issuu.com uses a Flash viewer to stream JPEGS, but the iPhone App has access to the full pdfs
* API URLs


  # Request information for a given issue name 49.02:
  http://publication.issuu.com/sf.guardian/49.02/ios_1.json


  # reveals all of the pdfUrls for each page of that issue, eg :
  # "pdfUrl": "http://page-pdf.issuu.com/141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34/3.pdf"


* PDF Scraping
  # NOTE: the covers are not pdfs, they are jpegs, and have null pdf fields:
  # "jpgUrl": "http://image.issuu.com/141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34/jpg/page_1.jpg"

Revision as of 21:26, 14 October 2014


Status October 14th, 2014

San Francisco's Progressive Paper of Record the San Francisco Bay Guardian has been terminated.

Gone is 40+ years of investigate reporting and journalism from www.sfbg.com http://rss.sfbg.com is still around with a goodbye letter.

Issuu.com mirror

 Username : sf.guardian
 # This is the issuu.com account
   
 Name: 49.02
 # This is the issuu.com publication name

Bay Guardian issue names for the 192 back issues are:

  • 45.11 - 45.52
  • 46.01 - 46.52
  • 47.01 - 47.52
  • 48.01 - 48.52
  • 49.01 - 49.03

Issuu.com API

  • Issuu.com uses a Flash viewer to stream JPEGS, but the iPhone App has access to the full pdfs
  • API URLs
 # Request information for a given issue name 49.02:
 http://publication.issuu.com/sf.guardian/49.02/ios_1.json
 # reveals all of the pdfUrls for each page of that issue, eg :
 # "pdfUrl": "http://page-pdf.issuu.com/141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34/3.pdf"
 # NOTE: the covers are not pdfs, they are jpegs, and have null pdf fields:
 # "jpgUrl": "http://image.issuu.com/141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34/jpg/page_1.jpg"