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phpBB • View topic - Transfer Yahoo! group archive to phpbb forum?
Is there a way to transfer my Yahoo!
Group archive to my phpbb forum?
We have over 3000 messages and before I lock down the yahoo!
Group I'd like to somehow transfer the message archive to our new phpbb forum.
Is there some way to do this?
If not, I could create an "archive" sticky thread with an iFrame or link to the yahoo!
Group, but that's pretty lame.
Any other ideas?
Thanks Last edited by pwrgrrl on Tue Mar 04, 2003 8:23 am, edited 2 times in total.
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Bump
a simple "no" if there is no way to transfer archives is appreciated.
thanks
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There's always a way, but that would involve the coding of a program by someone.
Since no-one reacted, I think your chances of getting someone to write you such a program are about 0.
Maybe you should check out the development of email import tools and/or mailinglist integration into phpBB...
Search the forum for that, esp.
The MODs sections.
That might get you a step closer...
PhpBB Converter Team Member
Developer of the vBulletin 2.x.x ->
PhpBB 2.0.x Converter
See Matthijs.net for more info
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Actually this is something I'd be seriously interested in laying my hands on...
The only problem is any existing thoughts on how to manage it...
If anyone has any existing work, ideas, suggestions, etc..
On this one then I'm all ears as I have a massive Yahoo community that I'd like to import rather than lose...
Cheers
EDIT: just to reiterate I'm interesting in writing a convertor, not just talking about it..
Figured I'd make that clear.
Mod Author: Calendar Lite | Advanced timezone(DST) | CalPro | LinkzPro | DLManPro
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Quote: : Actually this is something I'd be seriously interested in laying my hands on...
The only problem is any existing thoughts on how to manage it...
If anyone has any existing work, ideas, suggestions, etc..
On this one then I'm all ears as I have a massive Yahoo community that I'd like to import rather than lose...
Cheers
EDIT: just to reiterate I'm interesting in writing a convertor, not just talking about it..
Figured I'd make that clear.
I'm serious enough to throw some shareware money your way.
Perhaps a list of others like me willing to pay shareware fee for the software will inspire someone to write this application?
Hint hint, chime in here all you yahoo!
Groupies
Shelby
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Quote: : I'm serious enough to throw some shareware money your way.
Perhaps a list of others like me willing to pay shareware fee for the software will inspire someone to write this application?
Hint hint, chime in here all you yahoo!
Groupies
Heh
Well one thing at a time here...
Chances are this will be a cast iron pig to sort out because unless I'm very much mistaken Yahoo!
Groups are setup to try and disuade any attempts to spider any archives because that would dilute their usefulness.
For now at least I'm going to take a long hard look at how many variables are likely to be involved so don't be holding your breath..
This will take more than a little time to resolve.
Mod Author: Calendar Lite | Advanced timezone(DST) | CalPro | LinkzPro | DLManPro
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Problem is you have to be logged into Yahoo to be able to view the webpages for the forum.
If you manage that (with the use of a PHP HTTP Class that supports cookies f.i.), you should take a look at the ezboard importer, since they also parse HTML pages because there is no access to the servers database or datafiles.
A Yahoo Groups importer would look a lot like the ezboards one, I would think.
If you still have access to all emails in a local archive, that might be WAY easier to import (importing from clear textfiles), but chances are that you don't have such an archive.
If you do, you can also make it threaded instead of flat single posts.
PhpBB Converter Team Member
Developer of the vBulletin 2.x.x ->
PhpBB 2.0.x Converter
See Matthijs.net for more info
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PHP HTTP Client Class, supports cookies, Easy to use:
http://lwest.free.fr/doc/php/lib/index.
... nt&lang=en
Good luck with your Project, Websnail.
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Quote: : Problem is you have to be logged into Yahoo to be able to view the webpages for the forum.
Yeah I found that cookies need to be enabled which is obviously an issue but I believe RUSerious has provided the necessary info there
you should take a look at the ezboard importer, since they also parse HTML pages because there is no access to the servers database or datafiles.
A Yahoo Groups importer would look a lot like the ezboards one, I would think.
Useful tip...
Thanks for that...
If you still have access to all emails in a local archive, that might be WAY easier to import (importing from clear textfiles), but chances are that you don't have such an archive.
If you do, you can also make it threaded instead of flat single posts.
I wish I did have something like that but part of the rough plan is to get the parser to look at the subject title of each post and compare them with original titles...
Granted it won't be perfect but it'd be better than nothing...
Anything more complex would involve fuzzy logic algorithms and I'm not going there..
The good news though is that I've found indicators for where parsing should start and finish, as well as other stable indicators for deleted posts,etc...
It ain't going to be easy that's for sure, especially if Yahoo get wind of any script and change the way it does things but here's hoping they don't wise up too quickly Mod Author: Calendar Lite | Advanced timezone(DST) | CalPro | LinkzPro | DLManPro
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Hows this effort going?
wondering since I'm thinking that this will work too:
1) installing m2f (m2f.sourceforge.net)
2) running a perl script that i found at http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/969 which allows you to grab yahoo groups content
3) extending the perl script to email the post to the m2f email address vs writing to disk
4) which in turn feeds the phpBB forum
couple of issues I've noted with YG:
1- topic/subject names change so threading might be something you'd need to clean up.
There is a mod (simple topic merge i think) that will allow you to merge the posts back together but it it pretty labor intensive.
2- YG disables the account after about 150-300 queries if they happen back to back.
Account becomes active again after about a 2.5 hour wait
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I'd really like to have this ability, and I'd also be willing to pay a shareware fee for the privilege.
While trying to find out if this was possible, I happened across PG Offline .
Could that software make this process any easier?
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I would be willing to throw some geld at the project too.
Please keep us updated.
Thanks!
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I am also interested in this.
I just moved a huge mailing list over to PHPBB from Yahoo Groups and I'd really like to have the old Yahoo messages transferred over.
It won't be an easy task though - I have 36457 messages as of today!
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Whe need to make that in php.
Not evrybody has an perl enabled server.
So who wants to help.
I don't know so mutch about yahoo groups.
Oh and i don't think it will be able to block http requests so i think there is a way to convert the whole forum in one hour or something if it has about 1000posts.
Phpbb owns ya.
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Just stumbled on this discussion.
The ezboard converter logs in to ezboard, stores the cookie, and essentially spiders the content.
It might be a good code base for whoever wants to take it on.
I suggest you PM me if thinking about taking it on because it's undergoing some really major changes right now.
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