Keeping Voat's data when Voat shuts down (SearchVoat)

submitted ago by SearchVoat

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. (EDIT: Just noticed that this only works for submissions, not comments. Will add this facility for comments soon.)

  • 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.

  • EDIT: I am sending unique individual passwords to Voat users by DM so they can prove who they used to be on Voat. See here: https://voat.co/v/SearchVoat/4170476

* 99.9% complete; missing a few comments before July 2017

MrTwistedbad ago

Please send the password.

Ranlove ago

Excellent thank you.

Billyblavik1 ago

Please send me a password!!

dontmindthemess ago

Give me one please

LuckyTrigger ago

Thank you for everything and merry Christmas! [email protected]

LuckyTrigger ago

May I get the password please?

scoripowarrior ago

Came to say my final goodbye 👋 before family arrives for our Christmas celebration 🎉 Love ❤️ you all and this place. Merry Christmas 🎁🎄 to all, and to all a goodbye 😢🙏

Wingrider ago

SO SORRY WE ALL HAVE TO LOOSE THIS VALUABLE RESORSE !!!!

A place to exchange information, learn, & help others to learn.

Thank You for all the services rendered to me and all of us.

GO WITH GOD

SlyAJ02 ago

Thank you good sir!

doxblox ago

Amazing. Thank you for your service.

o7

Q-Buzz ago

[email protected]

Thank you

Bumblecherry ago

Bye

telleveryoneyouknow ago

Will miss you all very much. Keep fighting. Keep redpilling. Godspeed!

chocolatepatriot2 ago

sad, i will miss Voat

Ardithla ago

I’m so sad.

Pervert_Pete ago

Hi

51235521 ago

Thanks I’m in

Wonder_Boy ago

Commenting. Is the password different than the one you already DM'd us?

SearchVoat ago

No, use the one you were sent earlier.

Lynnwiod357 ago

SearchVoat password please

etzefeck ago

thanks for all your work. the entire white race is literally subconsciously depending on people like you to come and save our asses at the last minute

xeemee ago

excellent work

Dagobert1488 ago

Comment

warren22 ago

very nice to be able to save all the great information that has been posted here, and Merry Christmas.

SuzeQ2018 ago

thank you and Merry Christmas.

Chiefpacman ago

Thank you for the service

FeathersMcGraw ago

me too

Overland_bound ago

Thank you for your dedication and sacrifice!

the_crimper ago

Thank you!

foltaisaprovenshill ago

Thank you SearchVoat!

VoataoV ago

Hey I think we can pull something together, we just have to work together in a communication channel. There is an IRC channel on EFNet ready for everyone to communicate. Please join the #Voat IRC room and let us work together to save Voat.

https://voat.co/v/general/4173546

evilwhitemale ago

Upload to archive.org?

flyingcuttlefish ago

I think this is better one - https://archive.vn/

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Nadeshda ago

Thank you for all you do!

emergencysaving ago

A whole lot of empty subverses. Please do what you can to archive them. I would really appreciate it.

viperx3791 ago

NMBRFG here. Does this my decodes are safe for future retrieval? Thanks Brother.

Speakfree ago

Thank you sir

MACSOG68 ago

I was hoping that someone with more money than BIDEN would step in and keep this GREAT site up, but I guess the world doesn't work that way. I have been with Voat since the beginning. I will miss all of you GREATLY. However Goodbye is not in my vocabulary, so I would only say, see you all later and I will suggest strongly that once we finally finish this fight, we NEED to plan a reunion in the future where we can finally meet each other,relax,cook out,drink some beer and CELEBRATE our VICTORY. "WHERE WE GO ONE WE GO ALL" NEVER FORGET

AMEN

MACGOG68 " TO FREE THE OPPRESSED"

Chimpfighter ago

Thanks

Joe10jo ago

Thank you.

1kiddo ago

Thank you !

Nerva ago

Many thanks!

FantomasSF ago

Thank you give me your cashapp or a form of payment and I’ll shoot over some cash just as a thanks for all you’ve done. It’s been very much appreciated. Best to you

MayorMcBullshit ago

Damn im already talkin stinky stank shit on phukz and notabug and, hell, even NHTB is gettin sum didactic diatribes that i shuld be charging cuckbux and krypto to even POST! How i will miss typing in my User/Pass every morning and checking what yall fucked up motherfuckrz have posted. Even the qtards were a source of comedic tragedy that i dont think exists anywhere else juxtaposed so closely to real actual tinyhat kikelord info wars. I usually only cry when ive came, but im snifflin now and will have a heavy-hearted Christmas. Good Luck and Good Night, niggerfaggotz

halifaxgrift ago

Why would you call it "SearchVoat" tho? That's weird.

elchupanibre5 ago

Thank you

isvoat86 ago

Thank you friend

Jet-Morgan2 ago

Thank you SV !!

NiggadermCQ ago

My search voat pw is Nigger2kike.

Now I have plausible deniability.

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3141592653 ago

thank you

NoGoodAnswers ago

Thank you good sir! (Now how the heck does one DM? My RTFM is weak....)

MercurysBall2 ago

Thank you for your invaluable service Search.

CognitiveDissident5 ago

Thanks

VitGet ago

Who the fuck downvoted this?

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Vindicator ago

You are the very best, @SearchVoat. Thank you for everything.

un1ty ago

GOD DAMN IT

WTF

Why can't we just migrate or snapshot? Is there no Digital Ocean droplet we can manifest to migrate all this over to and continue?

heretolearn ago

Gracias!

MadWorld ago

o7 Love you man!!

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TopTierCIAShill ago

u guys are all thanking this

but this is the feds saying "your shit is saved FOREVER"

voat will be used as a hit list for the commies

TimberWolfAlpha ago

Good. Rather go down swinging than live in a race-and-sex-groveling-own-nothing-and-eat-bugs dystopia

TopTierCIAShill ago

BETTER TO LIVE 1 DAY AS A LION THAN 100 YEARS AS A SHEEP

lord_nougat ago

MAAAAAAAAAAH!

[woolly goat sound]

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RM-Goetbbels ago

Thanks SearchVoat. You were always tops in my book anyway.

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ScreaminMime ago

Plus Dial can use it to guess our alts!

Intrixina ago

Damn, I remember that guy! He and Tallest_Skil made/make me laugh but they did have the occasional informative gem of a post.

thebearfromstartrack ago

Sounds COURT related. delete? HOW would delete YEARS of posts? Is there an SQL like interface? I've never seen anything but INDIVIDUAL delete command. In the account tab or something?

SearchVoat ago

On Voat, in user settings, can delete your account. Specify whether to keep, or anonymise, or delete posts. Then in SV hit edit/delete on one of your posts and can choose to delete entire user's posts.

thebearfromstartrack ago

that doesn't include "archived" posts does it? Older posts.

Yeah I went and found it on my own just after posting previous. previous question above still stands though. thks.

SearchVoat ago

Yes, SV doesn't distinguish Archived posts, all treated the same

emergencysaving ago

Please look into that. So very many of the older subverses give you a blank screen with the words "Submission not found"

pinklb_q ago

Jesus fuck. Thanks now just before Christmas I gotta clean out 5 years worth of bullshit. Fuck putt and fuck voat.

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26901454? ago

What's the deadline on deleting my account or how long does it take you to action account deletions? I feel I should delete my account (probably not posts, maybe just anonomise) but want to leave it until the last minute.

SearchVoat ago

When you hit edit/delete on SV, it checks Voat within a few minutes to make sure the account's deleted. Then deletes data from SV straight away. So you could leave it till say 11.30am PST.

26901542? ago

Thanks

FriedChicken ago

How do I delete everything from here?

FriedChicken ago

Many thanks.

Norm ago

you're the best.

SearchVoat ago

yw

Regarding your request, you should be able to save your comments using the existing facilities on SV, as described above.

alcogiggles ago

So why not just convert it to a real VOAT alternative and just keep it as an archive? Is that possible?

I understand you might not have the ability to keep the users, but the content will still exist (although all the threads might be locked if anything). The goats will all need to create new accounts. Will you be able to do that?

ruck_feddit ago

You're doing God's work. My first thoughts were about yours and the preview site.

MuzzieJuice ago

Fucking Godsend

Helena73 ago

The NSA hosts it for free.

lord_nougat ago

That shit ain't free! Have you seen how much taxes they're taking out of your paycheck?!

Helena73 ago

Yes well of course I know where the NSA gets money

Germ22 ago

So how exactly could i download ALL of voat? And how much data would it be? And can the format then still be used like it was still a website but on my pc?

OfficerDarrenWilson ago

no, totally impossible without a great deal of work. basically you'd have to recreate the reddit source code (which is open source) on a web server on your own computer, then import a huge amount of data (that you'd basically just have to scrape with web scrapers)

Using SearchVoat.co is...much easier

hang_em_high ago

Any ballpark idea on how much space that would take up? Not sure I have the HDD space even if I knew how to do it.

thor7 ago

Probably a few gigabytes if you're scaping it in a few optimized/efficient way. As in, parsing the data and feeding stuff into your own SQL database. You'd essentially be rebuilding the backend database through scraping. It would be a good load on the server, but you'd only have to do it once, and you can then share it with whoever. Even in the event of complete noncompliance/non-help from Voat admins, it would absolutely work. If it wasn't so short notice this is something I would've happily built.

hang_em_high ago

Great info. Sounds like it would have been a fun project. I figure if I have to ask 3 days probably isn't going to be enough. Maybe the next place I go to I can build something like this. It would be really cool to be able to archive only the subs I care about. What sort of database pattern would you use for forums? Some sort of star schema with users, forums, submissions, etc tables?

thor7 ago

I'd do something like this: https://files.catbox.moe/gc6wpn.png It may not be 100% correct, as I'm running on 5 hours and some change of sleep, but that should definitely point you in the right direction. There is only a handful of values you need to account for.

The structure would be pretty simple. You'd just have the scraper adding usernames/threads/subverses it sees into a queue (another table), then checking if the thread/user/subverse in question has already been parsed (which could perhaps be another boolean added to each of those things). If this wasn't just a one-time tool and you'd want to archive a site over time, you could add other attributes like datetime_checked to prioritize older threads to check, up until a certain age when they are archived and "locked in." Other things can be added as well, depending on the size of the site and how ambitious you want to be. Anyway, I'm not trying to ramble, but rather show the layers of sophistication you could bolt onto it if you want it to be increasingly "smart" in how it runs.

hang_em_high ago

Thanks man. That’s good info. I’m more front end so database stuff is out of my comfort zone. I did a scraping project a few years back and they would block me when I requested too fast. I think they did an IP ban after repeated blocks as well. Any idea how to get around something like that?

thor7 ago

It really comes down to the level of protection a site has, ranging from nothing at all, to 10/10 (Google, for instance). The most simple way to detect bot traffic is by slamming out requests on the server. The easiest solution is to simply space out your requests, perhaps sleep a few seconds between requests. But the more sophisticated detectors can see through this, so you'll have to randomize your activity, add random "breaks" in, and not have it run 24H straight. Basically, imagine how a normal human would use a website, and try to fit within that. And all of these things could easily by done by a language such as Python.

They also can check your user agent, which shows browser info, and can quickly determine if you're a bot or a real user. But that too can be spoofed. Finally, (at the far end of sophistication), they can block IPs depending on if they are known datacenter IPs, or proxy IPs. This is why residential IP proxies are big money, because you can do whatever without the site suspecting you're a bot (assuming you're not doing stuff to make you stand out like I described above).

But yeah.... just start by spacing out your requests by a few seconds, and see if that works. Test this on some public wifi network like a library, university or Dunkin Donuts, no need to burn out your home IP when figuring this stuff out. I made an automated distributed craigslist scraper thing a while back that would refresh a few pages and instantly alert me if there were new posts that contained certain keywords, so for flipping stuff, I could be the first person to contact them at the same time without me being full time on the computer searching. Their anti-bot protection is among the best, so it was a lot of figuring stuff out and overengineering to make sure none of the nodes got blocked (and they never did). Look into what I talked about, theres some good resources and articles online.

hang_em_high ago

Thanks for all the information. Kind of fired up to work on this. Maybe trying it on Poal or Ruffus could be a decent idea.

StopTheEvilAgenda ago

Surely we could crowd source funding to backup the data for now, until a reliable and worthy alternative emerges

illuminalto2 ago

THANK YOU.

FOR EVERYTHING.

RabbiPuttitout ago

Thanks SV, were/are the best of voat.

LurkedForever ago

Thank you.

26900567? ago

Bless your soul

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Crensch ago

Legend.

Questionable_1 ago

Thanks for what you've done for the community.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

Thank you now more than ever.

RabbiPuttitout ago

Good luck clammy. You too are/were one of the crown jewels around here.

clamhurt_legbeard ago

thank you sir

[email protected]

BlackJivesChatter ago

@nothseapagan loves the kids.

ThePoliceTookMyGuns ago

So does Trump. What of it?