Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to archive a blackbox hosted website

2016-09-29 Thread Guus Snijders
Op 29 sep. 2016 13:43 schreef "Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)" < lop...@nedharvey.com>: > > > From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Ski Kacoroski > > > > So do any of you have any great ideas, wonderful software, etc that can > > scrape a websi

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to archive a blackbox hosted website

2016-09-29 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:discuss- > boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Ski Kacoroski > > So do any of you have any great ideas, wonderful software, etc that can > scrape a website on a regular basis so I could at least have provided > the content back to the teacher. I w

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to archive a blackbox hosted website

2016-09-28 Thread John Stoffel
Instead of trying to mirror things, could you just get access to our he backups they take so you can archive those backups on your own terms. Otherwise wget or curl in mirror mode might do the trick, but getting at java script hidden stuff might be harder. Esp since the output will probably not

[lopsa-discuss] How to archive a blackbox hosted website

2016-09-28 Thread Josh Smift
Was it a public site that archive.org might have copies of? I don't have any site-mirroring recommendations, although I know that wget has a --mirror option; but it might not work well with Javascript and friends. -Josh (iril...@infersys.com)

Re: [lopsa-discuss] How to archive a blackbox hosted website

2016-09-28 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 02:30:53PM -0700, Ski Kacoroski wrote: > Hi, > > We host our website with schoolwires - a provider specializing in websites > for school districts. I have no access to the backend - just a simple CMS > to modify paged, add users, etc. A teacher lost a several years of wor

[lopsa-discuss] How to archive a blackbox hosted website

2016-09-28 Thread Ski Kacoroski
Hi, We host our website with schoolwires - a provider specializing in websites for school districts. I have no access to the backend - just a simple CMS to modify paged, add users, etc. A teacher lost a several years of work and because they do not keep an audit trail or backups for very lo