Hi, I'm looking for a tool (similar to the wayback machine) that can capture public posts with their entire comment...
Hi, I'm looking for a tool (similar to the wayback machine) that can capture public posts with their entire comment thread, not just the 4 last comments.
Not Google's takeout, this needs to be accessible by everyone (just like the wayback)
Alternatively, do you know how to make all comments show up by default ?
Not Google's takeout, this needs to be accessible by everyone (just like the wayback)
Alternatively, do you know how to make all comments show up by default ?
If you go to the post's 'direct' link (the box icon w/ pointing arrow inside) ... (ie. https://plus.google.com/+YounesLayachi/posts/Fvtt4EaQ9uM) ... or use a web crawler to load each post, then all comments should be shown below.
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Also, i've been investigating making a chrome extension to capture posts & comments, but seems to only work after we click on the post (when it shows the "Shared publicly • View activity" options) which "containerizes" them as one.
ReplyDeleteBut i haven't tried moving these to other browser tabs in order to be saved yet, nor which site to save them on.
And this "post & comment" capture seems not to work on the post's 'direct' link. (the post and comments are containerized separately by the looks of it)
And those direct links (in the Android app you can also get them from the 'share link' content menu item at the top right, can also be fed into the Wayback Machine (if they're public posts).
ReplyDeleteExample: http://web.archive.org/save/https://plus.google.com/112064652966583500522/posts/QXRC4uzYcGB
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Another potential difficulty is G+ link rot. Until recently Google News articles were linked directly, so a news post linked to an existing news article. Now Google redirects outward links through it's cloud services. (so now i have to open a news site first to copy the direct URL before posting it) ~ bummer. :(
ReplyDeleteIf we do capture posts and comments, with their photo-album photos, we have to consider that these 'redirected' links and photos may be wiped when G+ is taken down. (similar to when YT pulls a video now) So we're likely to need to clean these post's links and restore photos in such cases.
Andrew Kidoo If you're talking about the Google AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) Viewer, then you don't necessarily first have to open the news site article to get the direct link. You can also click on the (—) link icon at the top, next to the news source's name from inside the AMP viewer to get the direct link.
ReplyDeleteUnless you mean right-clicking the URL from Google Search results, but afaik that has been useless with annoyingly long redirect links for a much longer time.
There are probably browser extensions though that will extract the URI-decoded URL from the 'url' parameter in the Google Search links.
Opening from the box/arrow, in a new window/tab or even the same page, does not open "previous comments", just the top post.
ReplyDeleteYes, i'm an oldskool right-clicker ;)
ReplyDeleteChristian Nalletamby On my desktop/laptop chrome browser it does.
ReplyDelete(not 'previous comments' of the shared post, but all comments of the current post) ..which was asked for.
Andrew Kidoo I'm guessing they mean for posts with a lot more comments, such as plus.google.com - We are sunsetting Consumer Google+ in August of 2019 Recently, we announced ...
ReplyDeleteWhich indeed don't auto-expand. You'd either have to script mouse-clicks in something like phantomjs, or use the API to query all the comments from the post, and compose your own HTML out of it.
(And since the expansion of the "View x previous comments" is done via an AJAX call, the Wayback Machine indeed doesn't archive those either: http://web.archive.org/web/20181111124451/https://plus.google.com/+googleplus/posts/gxoJEZfRjPd)
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Filip H.F. Slagter Yes correct, it's been a long while since i've read a 500 comment thread.
ReplyDeleteThese auto-scrollers or click-scrollers seem popular today for the very reason that people can't just right-click save content on other pages. (ie. an anti-theft device)
Yeah, the 'easiest' solution probably would be to use the API to find the Activity ID, and then to get all (paginated) Comments also via the API (https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/comments/list)
ReplyDeleteThough there doesn't seem to be an easy way to get the ActivityID from a plus.google.com URL. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13878052/obtaining-the-activity-id-from-a-url-for-google describes a workaround for that.
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Thank you all for your input !
ReplyDeleteAnd yes I'm trying to save more than 4 comments without getting the expand button "show all/previous comments" . That is what's preventing the wayback machine from working properly.
As I have no experience with the API and the other things needed, I don't think it's worth the time nor the trouble for me, and would rather just sit patiently and wait for those migration tools currently being prepared x)
Filip H.F. Slagter if you didn't get much interaction on your first 2 comments it's because G+ marked them as spam and were visible to me only, l just now restored them, sorry :/
Younes Layachi weird, so GPlus is now marking my comments as spam, while failing to catch actual spam?...
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks for marking them as non-spam. :)
Andrew Kidoo G+ does not fully expand or populate comments by default.
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