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diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 5f656b0..0000000 --- a/README.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ -===================== -Google Group Scrapper -===================== - -.. image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/mcepl/gg_scraper.png - :alt: Build Status - -A small script as a replacement of `the old PHP script`_ for downloading messages stored in the black hole of the Google Groups. - -.. _`the old PHP script`: - http://saturnboy.com/2010/03/scraping-google-groups/ - -How to use it? --------------- - -This script requires ``formail(1)`` from ``procmail`` package. Any -version is OK, so please install it from your distribution’s -repositories. Then run: - -:: - - pip install beautifulsoup4 PyYAML - python gg_scraper.py 'https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/<group_name>' - -Background ----------- - -I would never start without an inspiration from the comment_ by Sean Hogan on my previous post on the theme of locked down nature of Google Groups: - - At least google-groups appears to follow google's own advice on making AJAX sites accessible to the google web-crawler. See https://developers.google.com/webmasters/ajax-crawling/docs/getting-started - - So for me, - http://groups.google.com/d/forum/jbrout:FBv1oMXRZkxB6YShaFuNHc3-Moc&cuid=3654582 - redirects (eventually) to - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jbrout - which can be viewed in raw HTML as - https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=forum/jbrout - - Google Groups seems a perfect use-case for extreme-progressive-enhancement, but what would I know. - - regards, - Sean - -.. _comment: - https://luther.ceplovi.cz/blog/2013/09/19/we-should-stop-even-pretending-google-is-trying-to-do-the-right-thingtm/#comment-133-by-sean-hogan - ----- - -All issues, questions, complaints, or (even -better!) patches should be send via email to -[~mcepl/devel@lists.sr.ht](mailto:~mcepl/devel@lists.sr.ht) -email list (for patches use [git -send-email](https://git-send-email.io/)). For the issue tracking -I use [git-bug](https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug) in this -repo. |