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Re: Downloadable topic-database?
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LoyceV
on 24/12/2023, 08:59:02 UTC
So, please tell me if I'm wrong: you just scrape content with limited data treatment, so the filtering functionalities you offer are the same that the forum offers, i.e. sorting by chronological order, viewing the posts inside a topic and filtering by user.
I don't process anything, I just keep the raw HTML for archiving purposes. Although I also keep a list per user and per topic.

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Ok! I thought by the previous message that you were declining.
I meant ask TryNinja nicely if you want for instance only data from the Economics board.

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But if that's not the case then I'd be super grateful if you shared your database with me to avoid the undesirable task of rescraping the scraped!
I don't have a database. I just have "data". And it's a lot. Hence my question if you know how you're going to handle it. Old posts for instance are stored in a different format, although I may still have a backup of individual files for each post. That's the part where you'll get millions of files in one directory. So you'll have to be a bit more specific before I just dump a shitload of files on you Tongue

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Ninja's website looks handy too. Harder to scrape though.
Don't scrape, ask Tongue