code.ivysaur.me
Imgur Rescue Project
In April 2023 the website imgur.com announced it may delete old data/images that are rarely accessed and were uploaded without an account.
This repository contains public versions of internal scripts used to extract imgur.com links from yatwiki
and archive
; download the images and metadata; and convert them to a contented
database for ongoing read-only hosting.
The following tools are available:
archive-scrape
: extract imgur links from anarchive
installation.yatwiki-scrape
: extract imgur links from ayatwiki
installation.collect
: download imgur links and metadata, recursively following albums, with soft caching.irp2bolt
: convert the resulting imgur links and metadata into a Bolt database for use withcontented
.