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Comment by 3xblah | Hacker News Reader

To get an index of all C2 wiki pages

      curl https://proxy.c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/ > 1.html

To get a wiki page in JSON and convert it to textfile without using gratuitous Javascript

Optional: feed through fmt(1)

      curl https://proxy.c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/EgolessProgramming|tr -d '\n'|sed 's/ *//;s/{ \"date\": \"//;s/ \"text\": \"//;s/\",/\
   /
      s/\. :)//;s|\\r\\n\*|\
   \
   \*|g
      s|\\r\\n|\
   |g
      s/'''//g; s/''//g;s/\\\\"/"/g;s/\\"/"/g;s/\\t//g;s/ ://g;s/  */ /g;s/\" }$//' > 1.txt

To search the wiki

      curl https://proxy.c2.com/cgi/fullSearch/?search=$1|sed 's|href=wiki.|href=https://proxy.c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/|g' > 1.html

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why not just click on the link? - seems more work to run this

Also appears quote missing in second code block

Why not just serve plain HTML pages like C2 wiki used to do. Why use Javascript and Google Analytics. Why ask why.

Fact: It took more work for someone to convert the HTML to JSON, write the Javascript and set up the proxy than it did for me to write a shell script.

Not sure what were the benefit(s) to that person versus the one-time cost of switching away from plain HTML to requiring Javascript. No doubt he deemed it worth the time to set up.

What I do know is the benefit to me versus the one-time cost of writing a shell script. It means I do not need to use Javascript or submit to Google Analytics. I do not even need internet access once I have downloaded the C2 wiki, converted it to text and stored it on local media. If it one day disappears from the web and the IA, I still have a copy. This wiki is a piece of history and it is not changing.

Apologies for the error with the quotes. Here is a fix

cat > 1.sed

      s/ *//;s/{ //;s/ \"date": \"//;s/. \"text\": \"//;s/)//;s/\",/\
   /;s/ )//;s|\\r\\n\*|\
   \
   \*|g;s|\\r\\n|\
   |g;s/'''//g;s/''//g;s/\\\\"/"/g;s/\\"/"/g;s/\\t//g;s/ ://g;s/  */ /g;s/\"}$//

   curl https://proxy.c2.com/wiki/remodel/pages/EgolessProgramming|tr -d '\n'|sed -f 1.sed > 1.txt

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