07:05:18 https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011232/substack-nazi-moderation-demonetization-hamish-mckenzie 07:19:44 WTF 07:21:51 I expect some substacks will disappear as a result 07:57:16 are we aware of any issues ABing substack? 07:57:52 or is it just normal yeet it though 07:59:23 IIRC there are paywalls on some sites 07:59:33 * pabs hasn't done any AB for it tho 08:13:47 ah ok 08:16:08 I've done it via AB before and I believe there is some rate-limiting but it isn't too particular 08:53:24 this site contains some mediafire and Google Drive links, wondering how to save them https://quadra605.mcdonnelltech.com/ 08:54:32 pabs: i'll grab the mediafire links 08:57:54 based on previous discussions i believe google drive should work in ab given appropriate ignores 08:58:01 (https://hackint.logs.kiska.pw/archiveteam-bs/20231121) 12:34:40 thuban: It's possible with AB, but the URLs need to be transformed; simply throwing a list of normal GDrive URLs into AB (directly or via recursion on another site) won't make it grab files, and folders don't work at all to my knowledge. 12:39:16 JAA: what's the transformation? my understanding was that !a would work 12:39:59 thuban: Regular links don't go to the /uc with export=download. 12:40:37 ah, i see 12:41:05 So for example https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8zhxvoYK3WTVHNpTjNMUzRtTWM/view → https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B8zhxvoYK3WTVHNpTjNMUzRtTWM&export=download 12:41:39 The !a bit is just about the malware warning on large files. 12:41:52 For small files, a simple !ao on the /uc URL is sufficient. 12:42:50 got it, thanks 12:44:33 can playback from /view be made to work at all? or are archives doomed to be undiscoverable to people who don't know the alternate url format? 16:53:22 No, /view on files uses POST with some nondeterminism in the body 17:50:00 I believe /view did get the top bar to work properly at some point, including the download button, which previously used those /uc URLs (though I think they use a different download URL now that behaves slightly differently and doesn't interact as nicely with archivebot (using a form for large files instead of a URL with the query string already on it))