RE: getmsgs

Paul,
There a couple of python scripts over at github that do this. Just search on yahoo
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Sent: 19 October 2019 08:12
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [hercules-390] 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);
> }
> 
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