getmsgs

I have written a small program that makes use
of "curl" to get messages one at a time from a
Yahoo group:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/hercules-390/files/getmsgs.zip

I have run it (seemingly) successfully on pdos,
hercules-politics and C-IBM-mainframe.

I tried it on hercules-tss and it didn't seem to
work.

I'm going to try it on hercules-380 and
musicspdemo, but the volume there is much
higher and I think Yahoo might lock my IP
address out if I retrieve too much in one go.

Perhaps we could have a coordinated effort
to get portions of the groups archived.

Code is below.

BFN. Paul.



/*********************************************************************/
/*                                                                   */
/*  This Program Written by Paul Edwards.                            */
/*  Released to the Public Domain                                    */
/*                                                                   */
/*********************************************************************/
/*********************************************************************/
/*                                                                   */
/*  getmsgs - get messages from Yahoo Groups                         */
/*                                                                   */
/*********************************************************************/

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int x;
    int first;
    int last;

    if (argc <= 3)
    {
        printf("usage: getmsgs group-name firstmsg lastmsg\n");
        printf("e.g. getmsgs pdos 1 107\n");
        return (EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    first = atoi(*(argv + 2));
    last = atoi(*(argv + 3));
    for (x = first; x <= last; x++)
    {
        printf("curl -4 https://groups.yahoo.com/api/v1/groups/"
               "%s/messages/%d/raw >%d.txt\n", *(argv + 1), x, x);
    }
    return (0);
}