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Considered not sharing this, but figured I had put so much effort in I may as well.
It all started two weeks ago when I read the news that Imgur was going remove all anon and NSFW images (https://qbn.com/reply/4090042...
There was a comment from PhanLo that really struck home for me: "This is absolute bumsauce! Will make QBN a graveyard of broken links. Who will take the image sharing crown?"
At first I thought, that's sad. Then I thought, I've been wanting to build something like this for over a decade. So I did.
I present to you: https://haasie.com
Inspired by QBN. An after hours project. Still rough around the edges, but it does what it says on the tin. It was built specifically to prevent link rot on Imgur links.
I will be adding more features in the future but for now:
1. Upload the Imgur links you want to backup.
2. Wait a while - it can take some time depending on how busy the service is.
3. Swap out "imgur" in the links with "haasie" in the database. (ie.becomes
). Now when the file is deleted on Imgur, it will not disappear from QBN.
I can help with scripting on the DB if needed.
- Forgot the links would not be text. Should be: https://i.imgur.com/… becomes https://i.haasie.com….skinny_puppy
- The QBN link is: https://qbn.com/repl…skinny_puppy
- wow!!!!oey_oey
- but that would mean I know the imgur links of what I posted in the first place no?oey_oey
- Yeah, that is a catch. I was thinking more along the line of dumping all the imgur links out of the database (of say QBN) and uploading those.skinny_puppy
- And then find/replacing them in the database with haasie links.
If you have a suggestion of how it would work better for you, happy to look at making that work.skinny_puppy - Holy shit, what a hustle! That's awesome!Continuity
- Has imgur provided any sort of back-up tool? After over 15 years of use, I've built up a staggering number of images ...Continuity
- thats cool!milfhunter
- so where doe it store everything? Concerning you might end up with a shitload of porn and this could go end up with illegal stuff as well..milfhunter
- Thanks! I've seen some people have written their own scripts, but nothing official. Like this: https://dschep.githu…skinny_puppy
- Could look at building something that could upload a user's account to Haasie.skinny_puppy
- On DigitalOcean. Porn is fine as long as it is nothing illegal (ie. kiddies, revenge). Same rules as Imgur. Hoping Imgur acts as a filter for now.skinny_puppy
- I can extract the imgur links for each user from my partial DB. Is there a format to convert multiple imgur links? I can take a look at it next week.palimpsest
- Good lookin' out for that download tool, s_p, thanks!Continuity
- You can paste in a batch of links with one per line. Currently only supports "i.imgur.com" links, but I will add more support over the wknd.skinny_puppy
- Nice :) well doneGnash
- Yeah!! Good work and thanks :)OBBTKN
- Very cool, thanks for this!spot13
- this is amzing!Squiddy
- wow!YakuZoku
- Tl:Dr; just spent 5 mins trying to find differences between those two imagesdrgs
- @skinny_puppy thanks! my idea was to scrape all our imgur links put them on an account and create an extension what pulls the missing images form that account.sted
- Fuck yeah.garbage
- Also "link rot" is a great term.garbage
- you rock!utopian
- and definitely thanks, man!oey_oey
- Thanks for this!bezoar
- impressive skills, you did that quickhotroddy
- Thanks everyone! @sted that's cool. I have no idea how to write an extension, so I'm impressed.skinny_puppy
- Update - Shared Haasie on HackerNews. Someone (from QBN? HackerNews?) uploaded 158,159 files - 91GB just over an hour ago.skinny_puppy
- lol that idiot. go and explain people that this isn't a done service.sted
- :) it's definitely available for use, although needs a lot more work. And I'm kinda proud it managed to withstand that.skinny_puppy
- Yup, works great!
https://i.haasie.com…utopian - I made a tool to retrieve users' imgur posts:
https://qbn.com/topi…palimpsest