Longshot question about a non-DU discussion forum

[Orrex]

I'm the admin a hobbyists' forum on the Hyperboards server, and about a week ago Hyperboards suddenly and summarily announced that they would be shutting down permanently on December 1st, with a total loss of all data.

I can reproduce much of the information because I maintain it in a database on my own system, but a great many posts contain information that isn't similarly backed up.

The format is pretty standard BB-code stuff, and I was wondering if there's some sort of app or utility for downloading or otherwise harvesting/archiving information posted in that format.

Does such a tool exist, or am I out of luck?


Any suggestions you can offer are much appreciated. This is an inconvenience for me, but other forums on Hyperboards stand to lose tens of thousands of memers' posts spanning fifteen years or so.


cross-posting to Computers.

[hunter]

1. the wayback machine at archive.org has some of it.

For example, here's what it's got of the hyperboard Bloks Forum:

http://web.archive.org/web/20170606125638/http://bloks.hyperboards.com/

https://archive.org/

I don't know what kind of luck you'd have with a web scraper, but that's the tool you're looking for.

[Orrex]

2. Thanks, I'll look into it

I wasn't even sure about what to call it.

[irisblue]

3. Consider X posting this in Community Help & the Computer group as well nt

[Orrex]

4. Thanks!