One of the hardest tasks I encountered during this push was making sure the links at the bottom of each post pointed to its chronological neighbors. It may seem minor at first but completing this would mark the first true advantage over the Wayback Machine from and end user’s perspective. Notice how when you visit …
Remember just a bit ago when I said that I was passing more than just updated-max and max-results in the query string? Here is why: if I kept the structure of /year/month in the URL, I would need to actually create folders on the server for every single combination of the two and have an …
I touched upon PHP in a few previous posts, most heavily in Moving to a MySQL Database as a way to hack database information into a WordPress page. Dynamically writing HTML is exactly what PHP does so I will be using extensively in this post. Specifying Database User Information The first thing that needs to …
As you can see in the previous post, scraping from the Blogger API only yields the content of the post itself and some related metadata like date and author. In order to make the posts look like they came from the original website the formatting and CSS need to be copied over. You might be …
I spent all of last month scraping Edward Lifegem’s Blogger site from the API. That’s great and all, but what is the point if no one can access the content? My goal for July was to pull content from a database and make it look and behave as closely to the original site as possible. …