San Francisco Bay Guardian

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Status October 14th, 2014

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

There's some history to the recent acquisition, firing, and shutting down of the paper here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Guardian#Sale_and_recent_developments

Gone is 40+ years of investigate reporting and journalism from www.sfbg.com.

http://rss.sfbg.com is still around with a goodbye letter.

Local Press:

• SFWeekly, the other alternative weekly owned by the same company: http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/10/14/san-francisco-bay-guardian-closed-by-san-francisco-media-company
• SFist, blog: http://sfist.com/2014/10/14/the_san_francisco_bay_guardian_is_c.php

Issuu.com mirror

• 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
   
 Document Name: 49.02
 # This is the issuu.com publication name
  
 Document ID: 141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34
 # This is the issuu.com URL component for a specific document 

Bay Guardian document 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 PDF information for a given username and document 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"

 # Request Document ID for a given username and document name:
 http://api.issuu.com/query?action=issuu.document.get_user_doc&format=json&documentUsername=sf.guardian&name=49.02
   
  # "documentId":"141007194746-7819f25a55f483150eb9462df2f4be34",