Re: program to download archived google groups posts by author

In article <ABBUe.128$Xy2.118 (AT) newsfe7-win (DOT) ntli.net>,
"Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> had this to say:

I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a particular
author on google groups and ave them in one txt file hopefully without any
replies, is such a prog availble?

any help will be greatly appreciated

I think you'd be lucky enough to accomplish that manually using the Google
groups advanced search here: http://groups.google.com/advanced_search .

If your "particular author" always signed posts using the same "sig" line, then
you can just type or paste it into the "exact phrase" field. Doing that should
return most if not all of that author's messages and quoted replies.

But remember, if the author ever used the x no archive directive, then those
posts won't show up in the archives .

If there's an actual script or dedicated programme for automatically searching
out and extracting user designated posts, I'm guessing that the folks at Google
are keeping that a very tightly guarded secret, to prevent potential abuse .

Ckip

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Anonymous wrote

In article <ABBUe.128$Xy2.118 (AT) newsfe7-win (DOT) ntli.net>,
"Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> had this to say:
I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a
particular author on google groups and ave them in one txt file
hopefully without any replies, is such a prog availble?

any help will be greatly appreciated

I think you'd be lucky enough to accomplish that manually using
the Google
groups advanced search here: http://groups.google.com/advanced_search
.

If your "particular author" always signed posts using the same
"sig" line, then
you can just type or paste it into the "exact phrase" field. Doing
that should return most if not all of that author's messages and
quoted replies.

Or just search on the author's name. (Potentially tricky if it's a
common name!)

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

"Charles Sweeney" <me (AT) charlessweeney (DOT) com> wrote

Anonymous wrote

and maybe I should have read through this thread before posting my 'aww what
have you done'.

At least I understand now, I had no idea my posts would end up on google
searches....... live and learn huh

Jenny

"Charles Sweeney" <me (AT) charlessweeney (DOT) com> wrote

Anonymous wrote

In article <ABBUe.128$Xy2.118 (AT) newsfe7-win (DOT) ntli.net>,
"Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> had this to say:
I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a
particular author on google groups and ave them in one txt file
hopefully without any replies, is such a prog availble?

any help will be greatly appreciated

I think you'd be lucky enough to accomplish that manually using
the Google
groups advanced search here: http://groups.google.com/advanced_search
.

If your "particular author" always signed posts using the same
"sig" line, then
you can just type or paste it into the "exact phrase" field. Doing
that should return most if not all of that author's messages and
quoted replies.

Or just search on the author's name. (Potentially tricky if it's a
common name!)

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

The author has a particular signature and I can isolate all his posts via a
search of the author, I am then left with about 1,500 posts all uniquely
from the author the question is how do I extract them all into one text
file, without manually going through them with copy and paste?

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:37:22 GMT, "Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> wrote:

"Charles Sweeney" <me (AT) charlessweeney (DOT) com> wrote in message
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Anonymous wrote

In article <ABBUe.128$Xy2.118 (AT) newsfe7-win (DOT) ntli.net>,
"Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> had this to say:
I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a
particular author on google groups and ave them in one txt file
hopefully without any replies, is such a prog availble?

any help will be greatly appreciated

I think you'd be lucky enough to accomplish that manually using
the Google
groups advanced search here: http://groups.google.com/advanced_search
.

If your "particular author" always signed posts using the same
"sig" line, then
you can just type or paste it into the "exact phrase" field. Doing
that should return most if not all of that author's messages and
quoted replies.

Or just search on the author's name. (Potentially tricky if it's a
common name!)

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

The author has a particular signature and I can isolate all his posts via a
search of the author, I am then left with about 1,500 posts all uniquely
from the author the question is how do I extract them all into one text
file, without manually going through them with copy and paste?

Back to my original question ,..............

Have you the authors permission to do that ?
Does he know you are doing this ?
Have you spoken to him/her about it ?


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On 10 Sep 2005, Charles Sweeney <me (AT) charlessweeney (DOT) com> wrote:

Anonymous wrote

In article <ABBUe.128$Xy2.118 (AT) newsfe7-win (DOT) ntli.net>,
"Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> had this to say:
I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a
particular author on google groups and ave them in one txt file
hopefully without any replies, is such a prog availble?

any help will be greatly appreciated

I think you'd be lucky enough to accomplish that manually using
the Google
groups advanced search here: http://groups.google.com/advanced_search
.

If your "particular author" always signed posts using the same
"sig" line, then
you can just type or paste it into the "exact phrase" field. Doing
that should return most if not all of that author's messages and
quoted replies.

Or just search on the author's name. (Potentially tricky if it's a
common name!)

Yes, that's a good point. If that were the case, and the author had
always signed their posts with "Jane," or "Joe," or something really common
like that, then the author would have to have shown some other predictable
and distinguishing characteristic to his/her writing style that would
make their articles identifiable in a broad search of the groups .

I would guess that if the author had a favorite group that they usually
posted to, then one could quickly narrow the search by confining it to that
group or perhaps group heirarchy, using wild cards like "alt.internet.*"
That would surely narrow down the list of Janes or Joes in the archive .

The problem is that many authors have changed their posting email
address or alias multiple times over the years . If the searcher has a
complete list of these aliases, then they could do the search effectively
just by checking for each alias or email address in the "author" field.

If that didn't fit the bill, then maybe the author had consistently
misspelled a commonly used word, like "computor," or "sophtware?" Or maybe
they had written commonly used phrases in a uniquely uncommon way . But
unless they did something really odd like that, I doubt that anyone would
have much luck searching out their archived articles if no particular
group had been that author's usual haunt, which would be rare in any case .

It seems that authors who want their posts to be more readily searchable
have used uncommon names, or maybe unusual combinations of otherwise common
names, like "Joe Jane," or something. Not too many Joe Jane's out there,
I suspect . And most authors tend to post to the same groups over time.

Ckip

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On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 04:37:22 +0200, Nospam <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> wrote:

The author has a particular signature and I can isolate all his posts
via a search of the author, I am then left with about 1,500 posts all
uniquely
from the author

Plus all misquoted replies probably.

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Paul N Burke wrote

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:37:22 GMT, "Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> wrote:


"Charles Sweeney" <me (AT) charlessweeney (DOT) com> wrote in message
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Anonymous wrote

In article <ABBUe.128$Xy2.118 (AT) newsfe7-win (DOT) ntli.net>,
"Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> had this to say:
I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a
particular author on google groups and ave them in one txt file
hopefully without any replies, is such a prog availble?

any help will be greatly appreciated

I think you'd be lucky enough to accomplish that manually
using the Google
groups advanced search here:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_search .

If your "particular author" always signed posts using the
same "sig" line, then
you can just type or paste it into the "exact phrase" field.
Doing that should return most if not all of that author's messages
and quoted replies.

Or just search on the author's name. (Potentially tricky if it's a
common name!)

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

The author has a particular signature and I can isolate all his posts
via a search of the author, I am then left with about 1,500 posts all
uniquely from the author the question is how do I extract them all
into one text file, without manually going through them with copy and
paste?

Back to my original question ,..............
Have you the authors permission to do that ?

What's it got to do with you?

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

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Paul N Burke wrote

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:37:22 GMT, "Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> wrote:


"Charles Sweeney" <me (AT) charlessweeney (DOT) com> wrote in message
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Anonymous wrote

In article <ABBUe.128$Xy2.118 (AT) newsfe7-win (DOT) ntli.net>,
"Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> had this to say:
I am looking for a program out there that can extract posts of a
particular author on google groups and ave them in one txt file
hopefully without any replies, is such a prog availble?

any help will be greatly appreciated

I think you'd be lucky enough to accomplish that manually
using the Google
groups advanced search here:
http://groups.google.com/advanced_search .

If your "particular author" always signed posts using the
same "sig" line, then
you can just type or paste it into the "exact phrase" field.
Doing that should return most if not all of that author's messages
and quoted replies.

Or just search on the author's name. (Potentially tricky if it's a
common name!)

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

The author has a particular signature and I can isolate all his posts
via a search of the author, I am then left with about 1,500 posts all
uniquely from the author the question is how do I extract them all
into one text file, without manually going through them with copy and
paste?

Back to my original question ,..............
Have you the authors permission to do that ?

What's it got to do with you?

Don´t you want to ask him or her?
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On 12 Sep 2005 00:01:15 GMT, Charles Sweeney <me (AT) charlessweeney (DOT) com>
wrote:

Paul N Burke wrote

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:37:22 GMT, "Nospam" <nospam (AT) home (DOT) com> wrote:


snip

Have you the authors permission to do that ?

What's it got to do with you?

Because it was a valid question. Unlike yours
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