Keeping Voat's data when Voat shuts down

submitted 4.3 years ago by Lurker17

SearchVoat.co is an independent website not associated with Voat, Inc.

SearchVoat.co is not going to shut down in the foreseeable future.
SearchVoat.co already has a complete* backup of Voat's submissions and comments. This data does not generally include up/downvotes.
You can retrieve a copy of a Voat submission, including comments, by replacing voat.co in the submission URL with searchvoat.co. For example, this post is at https://voat.co/v/SearchVoat/4170146 and you can retrieve a backup at https://searchvoat.co/v/SearchVoat/4170146.
You can choose to download results from SearchVoat.co in CSV or JSON format, by selecting those options when you do a search. These downloads include up to 240 posts, but you cannot specify a page number, so narrow your search if you want more than 240 posts at a time.
I will add a shortcut to the SearchVoat.co front page to one or more Voat post mortem discussion forums TBA. Suggestions please.
If you want to delete your posts from SearchVoat, make sure you delete them from Voat before Voat shuts down then go to SearchVoat and hit edit/delete.
99.9% complete; missing a few comments before July 2017