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retoor45078dI've put whole devRant in a full text search database and can exactly see how many times someone talked about a certain subject for example. Also, who is mentioning each other. For some reason, devRant is a fun dataset to play with for me since I know a lot from it, but not all by far. So I can do tests where I expect certain outcome but surprises are still possible.
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If you're already doing that, make devrant archives, in case the site goes down since it's not being maintained anymore
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retoor45078d@SoldierOfCode that's also the plan. I gonna convert the local html data to a database in the structure of the api objects.
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Why !. I'll give the downie /* Cool name, BTW. */ a spin in a day or two.
I remember needing that sort of software a few years back. I used `HTTrack` back then.
...probably did the job, but can't remember.
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Since strangely enough lack of decent site downloaders I've written one myself.
It's battle tested by downloading WHOLE devrant and a big part of molodetz. Both big sites. It makes the downloaded sites portable by making absolute urls relative.
It downloads with a high concurrency.
Reason I've made this, is because I want to have all this data is so I have a lot of spam examples to train a model on.
Project page and features here: https://retoor.molodetz.nl/retoor/.... Source code at bottom as always.
I hope someone will give it a try :)
And yes, the docs costed almost the same time as the code. Code doesn't contain unit tests, it's production tested instead. I applied many optimizations mentioned by my review tool. When i was done I was too tired for unit tests.
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