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@@ -1,8 +1,27 @@ +===================== +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? +-------------- + +:: + + sudo apt-get install procmail + 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_ on my previous post on the theme of locked down nature of Google Groups. .. _comment: @@ -16,9 +35,4 @@ email (one of many of my addresses are available on my `Github page`_ ) .. _`Github page`: https://github.com/mcepl -Of course pull requests are more than welcome in the same places as -well. Currently all development is done with Python 3.3, but tests are -run on Travis-CI for 2.6, 2.7, and pypy as well. - -.. image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/mcepl/gg_scraper.png - :alt: Build Status +Of course pull requests are more than welcome in the same places as well. Currently all development is done with Python 3.3, but tests are run on Travis-CI for 2.7 and pypy as well. |