Web Archival using Webrecorder
Webrecorder is a tool I've just learned about in the past week, and only just tried in the past hour. It is a Web-based tool for recording and downloading online content, and may be useful for those preserving some Google+ content.
This is a very novice quick HOWTO.
Point your browser to https://webrecorder.io
Enter the URL you want to capture. This can be any Google+ URL, including Profiles, Collections, Communities, or *Search Terms I'm trying this right now the "SignalFlare" hashtag to capture any mentions of that which aren't already in the G+MM community.
Click the "Start" button.
On the new screen, under the "kebab" menu (three vertical dots), upper-right, select "turn on autoscroll". This will scroll to the end of the visible content of the page you're trying to capture. Let this run.
When the autoscroll stops, you've got all the available content. Note that this is going to be the stream view of whatever G+ content you're collecting, and you won't capture all of given posts and whatnot, though it's a start.
When completed hit the "Capturing" button to stop recording. You can then (poke around, I've lost track of the interface) find your collection and download, delete, or "patch" (add to) it.
Downloads are in WARC format, a file archival standard.
I haven't tried, but think you can log in through the Webrecorder session to access your personal content. I am not sure that this is secure.
And ... it appears that what you capture is the stream but not all of the individual post content, though I need to look at that.
I need to evaluate this further, but it looks as if this is at least partially useful and an additional resource to use.
https://webrecorder.io
Webrecorder is a tool I've just learned about in the past week, and only just tried in the past hour. It is a Web-based tool for recording and downloading online content, and may be useful for those preserving some Google+ content.
This is a very novice quick HOWTO.
Point your browser to https://webrecorder.io
Enter the URL you want to capture. This can be any Google+ URL, including Profiles, Collections, Communities, or *Search Terms I'm trying this right now the "SignalFlare" hashtag to capture any mentions of that which aren't already in the G+MM community.
Click the "Start" button.
On the new screen, under the "kebab" menu (three vertical dots), upper-right, select "turn on autoscroll". This will scroll to the end of the visible content of the page you're trying to capture. Let this run.
When the autoscroll stops, you've got all the available content. Note that this is going to be the stream view of whatever G+ content you're collecting, and you won't capture all of given posts and whatnot, though it's a start.
When completed hit the "Capturing" button to stop recording. You can then (poke around, I've lost track of the interface) find your collection and download, delete, or "patch" (add to) it.
Downloads are in WARC format, a file archival standard.
I haven't tried, but think you can log in through the Webrecorder session to access your personal content. I am not sure that this is secure.
And ... it appears that what you capture is the stream but not all of the individual post content, though I need to look at that.
I need to evaluate this further, but it looks as if this is at least partially useful and an additional resource to use.
https://webrecorder.io
Thumbs up! Just tried this, taking all of 5 minutes to register, stick in my G+ profile page url, and voila! Not only am I seeing my tiled, as-usual (live) G+ Profile page, but digging in see everything else, each collection, etc. It occurs to me I'm seeing a "live" feed into their "recorder" rather than the finished thing, because it is "capturing" according to a circle on the top bar. Very very cool (transparent-ish) interface. I don't know fully what I've signed onto, but anything public G+ is ok with me to archive (my photos are all watermarked), and it might be a neat tool to use down the road. Fortunately, I think (with 1 hour 10 minutes left on the "count-down clock") most have saved what they can by now. It's always just after you finish the BS&T that an easy solution comes along! Thanks Edward Morbius!
ReplyDeleteScreenshot (upper left of my screen) shows its frame & the "new" G+ interface (?) - a choice of Discover or Join Google+. ;)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DqFja8V0HyMMHnlQc1M2domkeZUQp_Rkyt-6uVP1DwPOxgB54jd4mt6mVWxXesh98W6U92m94ovWGFDkAG-6Vv_eg3fcbulwN_Qh=s0
Thumbs up! Just tried this, taking all of 5 minutes to register, stick in my G+ profile page url, and voila! Not only am I seeing my tiled, as-usual (live) G+ Profile page, but digging in see everything else, each collection, etc. It occurs to me I'm seeing a "live" feed into their "recorder" rather than the finished thing, because it is "capturing" according to a circle on the top bar. Very very cool (transparent-ish) interface. I don't know fully what I've signed onto, but anything public G+ is ok with me to archive (my photos are all watermarked), and it might be a neat tool to use down the road. Fortunately, I think (with 1 hour 10 minutes left on the "count-down clock") most have saved what they can by now. It's always just after you finish the BS&T that an easy solution comes along! Thanks Edward Morbius!
ReplyDeleteScreenshot (upper left of my screen) shows its frame & the "new" G+ interface (?) - a choice of Discover or Join Google+. ;)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/K4e-idiMCcIKYMDucO6VGcAIp4RHeru_BwvWib1Kl232P-JczJMWogPH76oeQrDBZcDIaLVgbhcPZwSbE4EXWDFvrW8ktff1hmHR=s0
Thumbs up! Just tried this, taking all of 5 minutes to register, stick in my G+ profile page url, and voila! Not only am I seeing my tiled, as-usual (live) G+ Profile page, but digging in see everything else, each collection, etc. It occurs to me I'm seeing a "live" feed into their "recorder" rather than the finished thing, because it is "capturing" according to a circle on the top bar. Very very cool (transparent-ish) interface. I don't know fully what I've signed onto, but anything public G+ is ok with me to archive (my photos are all watermarked), and it might be a neat tool to use down the road. Fortunately, I think (with 1 hour 10 minutes left on the "count-down clock") most have saved what they can by now. It's always just after you finish the BS&T that an easy solution comes along! Thanks Edward Morbius!
ReplyDeleteScreenshot (upper left of my screen) shows its frame & the "new" G+ interface (?) - a choice of Discover or Join Google+. ;)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3UA4JelD1jT5Pm_bLblbr5C74vCzR2sVJtxZokthqSHNOpFsDiV4OPY_6f8R-KpL_9lpQxoPvKnQWo6oqRlyzYEFTJ_1_6hBh3k=s0
Thumbs up! Just tried this, taking all of 5 minutes to register, stick in my G+ profile page url, and voila! Not only am I seeing my tiled, as-usual (live) G+ Profile page, but digging in see everything else, each collection, etc. It occurs to me I'm seeing a "live" feed into their "recorder" rather than the finished thing, because it is "capturing" according to a circle on the top bar. Very very cool (transparent-ish) interface. I don't know fully what I've signed onto, but anything public G+ is ok with me to archive (my photos are all watermarked), and it might be a neat tool to use down the road. Fortunately, I think (with 1 hour 10 minutes left on the "count-down clock") most have saved what they can by now. It's always just after you finish the BS&T that an easy solution comes along! Thanks Edward Morbius!
ReplyDeleteScreenshot (upper left of my screen) shows its frame & the "new" G+ interface (?) - a choice of Discover or Join Google+. ;)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ISWqFTERX3xF_lO-GEQAS0ykX9Hiu8WuymFcQ7tajpSbdibBjUas6jAkuya1-v3JjiiO7jgcCGiL1mamTfblMb5enADWcTDHfM0t=s0
I am trying this.It supposedly lets us archive up to 5 GB for free.However my scrolling stopped at only 381.47 MB. That only gores back as far as June of 2014.I have been on Google Plus since 2011.
ReplyDeleteI contacted customer support. Not sure whats up.I hope they get back to me before its too late.
I'm waiting to see how far it gets too, given that I've also pumped a lot of content/data into G+ land since 2011. Takeout was 13Gb, though very redundant. We'll see. Good luck (you and everyone!) "Too late" is heading our way fast, and quoting Jethro Tull, "no way to slow down".
ReplyDeleteUpdate It finished. It captured - nicely - only the one page, my "cover"/profile page . It didn't spider inward, so I'd have to go to each individual page for it to archive pages into a collection. Oh well, no free lunch, though for someone with only a few pages it may beat screen shots. MHO.
ReplyDeleteMichael Fenichel Right, definitely limitations, though finding URLs and spidering those may work.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget to download your WARC!
Thanks again. If this doesn't all vaporize in 12 minutes (one clock, midnight April 1) or 1day 12 minutes, or now, or never.... Might be a useful tool with a small collection or two that would be a nice souvenir. It does capture the whole page, comments and all, external links work. (Not to referenced internal-to-G+ links not in the collection.) Trying to recreate anything big still (IMM) requires more robust import-export tools. And a time machine.
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