Rebuilding Process Information Thread

[Garamonde]

MJ it... Doesn't work like that. It's just clicking buttons.

I know it doesn't work the same way as the broken sheets, but there might be overlap right?

I guess it'll be clear how exactly it's going to work when we see it...

[DJane Coco]

After all these years of using tSR as a resource, I felt inclined to donate a little 20GBP. I hope you guys can get the site working again soon, good luck!

[daemoth]

I cant afford any donation but if theres anything else i can do to help, i would be glad to!

[puggsoy]

Basically what Daemoth said. In any case good job with what you've guys done so far, and good luck with getting the rest back up!

[psychospacecow]

I don't know how but if I can help you guys, I'm in to do so.

[Pik]

Is there any way I can assist? I'm open to any task that needs additional manpower, just give me a ring.

[JosephSeraph]

MAN THIS MADE ME SO SAD I'M ALMOST CRYING
I wish I could donate but I don't have a credit card
And I wish I could help but I don't know programming at all
All I can do is to send my sincerest good vibes. ):
Best of luck...

[Dazz]

We're almost at a point that I can guarantee that our solution that's in the works will definitely work. We're almost ready to start refilling the data.

If this does end up working, we'll be looking at the site being up before the weekend.

[Phaze]

I wrote a scraper but the IP address I was using got banned pretty quickly, even if I randomized the IP/interval between requests Google looks for patterns in the search requests and will block too many similar requests with a CAPTCHA. The funny thing is, the biggest web crawler in the world doesn't let you crawl their servers. Huh.

Good ol' Google. It would be nice if people could just ask them to pass along the cached pages in a handy archive file but I doubt they'd even notice such a request, much less respond to it.

[MadkaT]

This can't be a great help, but you can consult the wayback machine too

http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.spriters-resource.com

I think this would be better than google

[Dazz]

Sadly, no; they have seriously outdated pages. Severely, when compared to Google. The first game I checked the first game we have in Arcade:
http://web.archive.org/web/2012060211560...oopmaster/

It's from just under 2 years ago, before the new system was even put in place.

[Raz]

It appears that we now have a system in place that's going to let us grab all of the information we need to restore the DB - it'll take a little while for us to crawl through every single game page to pull the information but Petie has done a fantastic job writing a bookmarklet that'll make gathering the data from a page trivial.

Once it's all done if anyone is interested we can write up what we've done throughout this process.

[Deathbringer]

Query: As far as you can tell at this point, what are the latest submissions you have to work with? Like up to what day?

[Petie]

Most of the site should be available but each page has its own timestamp as Google re-caches them over time so I can't give a definitive answer.

[Palculator]

Hello everyone,

I just found out about the news and registered to say that I created a local backup of the site roughly around the 07th of december. It contains all of the sprite files and the HTML pages generated by the website. So it's basically like the Google cache with the difference that I could provide the actual files. I'm also not sure how "complete" the Google cache is but regardless: If this would be of any help to you guys I could start preparing an upload (without the sprite files themselves, obviously.)

Cheers,
Palculator