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Re:Soup.io Will Be Discontinued by urxvtcd on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:35PM (#23805142)
I wrote a very simple soup content downloader some time ago, you can get it here: https://github.com/urxvtcd/soup-io-downloader

It has some shortcomings, mainly content is saved under random file name without extension. Hm, maybe I'll try to fix that now.

Re:Soup.io Will Be Discontinued by ikari_pl on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:42AM (#23811231)
I'm working on my own (don't trust noone), that parses everything into a neater JSON file that I can use later. I download the files with just bash magic.

https://github.com/ikari-pl/downsouper

Still has some downsides, but getting better. It doesn't download the posts from discussions yet. You can get your own posts and links to full-size images (no resize means both better quality AND faster download), includes the jq-xargs-wget pipes I used.

Then I want to add an exporter that would be able to convert it to, whatever, wordpress export format? Cry and go to tumblr? No idea. :(

Re:Soup.io Will Be Discontinued by klaude on Monday July 13, 2020 @04:20AM (#23818421)
I'm afraid that they will be gone sooner if folks start to download their contents in bulks :(
Re:Soup.io Will Be Discontinued by ikari_pl on Monday July 13, 2020 @01:47PM (#23823451)
What else can we do. What else.

Surprisingly enough, the assets are on an awesome CDN. Getting the HTMLs took me ~8 hours. Getting 19 GB of images - maybe 10 minutes?