wiki.bash-hackers.org

Extraction of wiki.bash-hackers.org from the Wayback Machine

This is targeting pages that have been captured by the Wayback Machine that specifically have '?do=edit' on the end of their URL. This gives us the markdown source.

See the incomplete script "archive_crawler" to see my working.

• TODO: Markdown linting
• TODO: Parse the already downloaded files for any missing links

Extracting the markdown

So the pages that have '?do-edit' on the end of their URL appear to have a reliable and predictable structure:

[ LINES ABOVE REMOVED FOR BREVITY ]
    <div class="toolbar group">
        <div id="draft__status" class="draft__status"></div>
        <div id="tool__bar" class="tool__bar"></div>
    </div>
    <form id="dw__editform" method="post" action="" accept-charset="utf-8" class=" form-inline"><div class="no">
<input type="hidden" name="sectok" value=""/><input type="hidden" name="id" value="wishes"/>[REST OF LINE REMOVED FOR BREVITY]

[ TARGET MARKDOWN CODE EXISTS HERE]

</textarea>
<div id="wiki__editbar" class="editBar">
<div id="size__ctl">
</div>
[ LINES BELOW REMOVED FOR BREVITY ]

So basically, we remove everything from the first line to the line that contains name="sectok", and then we remove everything after </textarea>, and what's left should be the markdown that we want.

LICENSE

As per the original wiki.bash-hackers.org:

Except where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license: GNU Free Documentation License 1.3

COPYRIGHT

The original copyright belongs to Jan Schampera (TheBonsai) and subsequent contributors, 2007 - 2023.

It's extremely important to me that copyright and attribution are given where required - the original contributors are worth their dues, and IIRC I'm one of them.

If you're one of the original contributors and you believe I've violated your copyright in anyway, please let me know in the first instance.