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Is there a more efficient way to scrape and download all stories from a forum than my current multi-step process? (piefed.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by MindfulMaverick@piefed.zip to c/programming@programming.dev

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I'm currently using a pagination, link extraction, and Python filtering process before feeding links to fichub-cli to download all stories from a specific forum. The workflow is detailed in this post: https://piefed.zip/post/1151173 . Looking for a more streamlined, possibly one-command solution that could crawl the forum, extract thread links, and download them automatically. Any suggestions?

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Start with the comprehensive link collection from Cyb3rNexus’s GitHub Gist – it already contains hundreds of pre-filtered thread links!

For more recent stories, navigate to NSFW Creative Writing

If your interest is in bulk download of erotic stories and you don't specifically care about that forum (which I assume is the case, if you just want to dump the entire thing)

like, you're looking for a training corpus to fine-tune an LLM to generate material along those lines or something in that neighborhood

I suspect that there are considerably-more-substantial archives than "hundreds".

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It looks like ftp.asstr.org is still running an anonymous-access public FTP server. They'll have years of archives from the relevant text erotica Usenet groups. You won't need to screen-scrape that; just use any client that can recursively download from an FTP server.