Posterous tracker – downloading all of Posterous

tracker.archiveteam.org

33 points·sp332··8 comments

Just to be clear before you go to the trouble of downloading the client: Posterous will ban your IP for a day if you do this. The bans happen at 50 minutes past the hour, so for example at 11:50 all the bots caught downloading since 10:50 will be banned for a day.

Edit: on the other hand, the client is good for more than just Posterous, so you might as well get it anyway :)

Edit2: OK if the tracker itself is down, you can get the client here https://archive.org/details/archiveteam-warrior

Why don't posterous/twitter just dump their data in a torrent instead of making it hard?

Mostly because it's a business asset, there's probably engineers clamouring to just dump it to save dealing with bot crawlers.

If you would like to get involved and help out downloading Posterous - join our projects IRC channel at EFNet, in the #preposterus channel. Please, do read sp332's comment in this comment thread before joining up.

The downloaded data will of course be made available.

ArchiveTeam's main IRC channel is at #archiveteam (on EFNet).

I tried the backup feature yesterday, they said they'd email me my backups. Still nothing.

I've been waiting for my backup email for over a week. Pretty sure it's just a pretty button with no code behind it.

I just had to go back to that page a couple of hours later and there was a link to download a .zip file.

same here.

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