Using Archive.org doesn't work on medium posts and ideally I want to archive every post. The blog I'm trying to archive is https://itsairborne.com in case the posts go down. Googling how to backup medium posts only gives me articles on how to do it if it were my blog. I found this extension called Monolith of Web that allows you to backup a website using the Rust tool Monolith and I just went to each article and clicked the extension and saved them all one by one
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Borger@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2y
Write a scraper using python and selenium or something. You may have to manually log in as part of it
despotic_machine@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
inspxtr@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
which of the posts didn’t work on archive.org wayback machine? I tried your post “How Can You Clean the Air” and it worked, though took a bit of time due to a couple of redirecting
nix@merv.news · 1 pts · 2y
Oh weird whenever i tried using it on of his posts it wouldnt archive. Its not my blog
wolfshadowheart@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
Good find on the solution, there's some good alternatives from the github Monolith as well. However, MoW looks great, too bad it's Chrome only from what I can see :(
nix@merv.news · 1 pts · 2y
Yeha i had to get on chrome just for this :/ hopefully someone forks it into a firefox addon
AuroraBorealis@pawb.social · 1 pts · 2y
Does this actually modify the files when monolith embeds everything into one file?
oldfart@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
Maybe some alternative frontend and then the regular methods like wget?
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends#medium
keefshape@lemmy.ca · -3 pts · 2y
Pose this question to chat gpt 3.5 or 4. Ask it to assist in making a (python?) script to do this. Feed it errors, and you can get there pretty quickly and learn along the way.
keefshape@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
Lol, downvoted for...?