Archiving chosen content from Metafilter?

May 31, 2006 5:19 PM

What methods are available for archiving chosen content from MetaFilter (e.g. your contributions, favourite threads and comments, and so on)? I was thinking about using ScrapBook for Firefox to manually save some stuff. How else might one achieve this though? I ask because a psychic told me MeFi will permanently die this Monday.
posted by sjvilla79 to MetaFilter-Related at 5:19 PM (22 comments total)

So the psychic thing was a fib. Oops. Back to my question though.
posted by sjvilla79 at 5:19 PM on May 31, 2006

Delicious?
posted by Mr. Six at 5:20 PM on May 31, 2006

But del.icio.us doesn't keep a copy of the content as far as I know. Has the service changed?
posted by sjvilla79 at 5:21 PM on May 31, 2006

I apologize. I didn't realize you needed to cache the page. I might well recommend a hosting service and an open-source wiki to most easily manage your archival needs.
posted by Mr. Six at 5:23 PM on May 31, 2006

How is ScrapBook? It looks interesting but time-consuming (and resource-intensive).
posted by Eideteker at 5:46 PM on May 31, 2006

wget? curl?
posted by boo_radley at 6:01 PM on May 31, 2006

LIAR!
posted by graventy at 6:04 PM on May 31, 2006

Pay Matt to send you an archive of the database?
posted by monju_bosatsu at 6:04 PM on May 31, 2006

I could do a SELECT * from everything where user_id = 23667

Actually I just did and unless you give me a thousand dollars by Monday, the psychic dies.

I'LL DO IT!
posted by mathowie (staff) at 6:20 PM on May 31, 2006

How is ScrapBook?

It works well. I've had it installed for over a year now and haven't had any problems. Probably the only issue is when you go to back up your profile (e.g. it can take longer if you have many saved folders). Just now though I've archived all of my chosen MetaFilter content. It took me around 30 minutes.
posted by sjvilla79 at 6:22 PM on May 31, 2006

Actually I just did and unless you give me a thousand dollars by Monday, the psychic dies.

But you see, Matt, the psychic saw that one coming. She's sitting here with me drinking tea and eating scones. You're more than welcome to attend though. And please bring a leather album full of my MeFi contributions. Hey, there's a business idea for you.
posted by sjvilla79 at 6:26 PM on May 31, 2006

Leather album... hey, can I get the entirety of my contributions hand-carved in a series of ornate leather paddles?

That'll leave a mark... oof.
posted by loquacious at 6:31 PM on May 31, 2006

I believe furl and clipmarks do something like what you're after, but I haven't used them.
posted by MetaMonkey at 7:10 PM on May 31, 2006

File | Save Page As
posted by quonsar at 7:27 PM on May 31, 2006

File | Save Page As | Your Mom.
posted by loquacious at 8:40 PM on May 31, 2006 [1 favorite]

ma.gnolia saves pages too.

I punt everything into ma.gnolia as well as del.icio.us using onlywire, which lets you post to nearly all these social bookmarking sites simultaneously with one click. So I get an instant backup of my del.icio.us bookmarks, plus page saving (which is the only thing ma.gnolia has going for it - it's just a weak del.icio.us clone in a pretty dress, otherwise.)

Of course, if both del.icio.us and ma.gnolia go tits up, I'm fucked. So File | Save Page As is probably the way to go...
posted by jack_mo at 1:43 AM on June 1, 2006

Google Notebook with the Firefox extension.
posted by blue_beetle at 6:55 AM on June 1, 2006

Whatever happened to co.mments support? Isn't this exactly what that is for?
posted by Plutor at 9:22 AM on June 1, 2006

I think it was CoComments support that mathowie added to the site.

co.mments works with MetaFilter without added code on the site (and for my money is the better of the two). Not sure either are what sjvilla79 are after, mind you...
posted by jack_mo at 10:35 AM on June 1, 2006

And here I thought co.mments and CoComments were the same thing.
posted by Plutor at 11:07 AM on June 1, 2006

Not sure either are what sjvilla79 are after...

Basically everything mentioned in this thread thus far has been right on the money.
posted by sjvilla79 at 2:02 PM on June 1, 2006

wget should do the job quite nicely, actually.
posted by majick at 2:40 PM on June 2, 2006