Ziff Davis Media pulls the Plug on FileFront?

[AdmiralHocking]

Originally Posted by Apprentice

Then you should have said it earlier that you were doing that rather then remain silent and giving *facepalms* at someone who is doing a similair thing . . .

Originally Posted by AdmiralHocking

I've downloaded the source map files, character files and such. In addition to the two versions of Radiant, the PC & Mac 1.2 patch, Pakscape and Pk3 Support for Windows XP.

As well as a small plethora of other files including a few Roleplaying maps and Single Player modifications.

Am I alone in being able to see that?

[Brex2]

If you need extra space you could use Diino http://www.diino.com/
If about 10 people got together and opened up their own 'Trial' accounts a single web page could link to all the files in the site...

I'm still on the old version http://classic.diino.com/ but I might upgrade soon to see whats new

[Apprentice]

Originally Posted by AdmiralHocking

Am I alone in being able to see that?

I stand corrected but it doesn't excuse you from dissing another member here from doing something similair . . .

[Pille]

Continue this childish arguing at a later time, right now we have to handle projects that require "co-operation". Tells you anything? Great.

[stewie]

http://arloria.net/ircrts/wiki/Main_Page <- Current list of files we have saved/are in the process of saving

[Apprentice]

Originally Posted by Pille

Continue this childish arguing at a later time, right now we have to handle projects that require "co-operation". Tells you anything? Great.

Your collective "co-operation". Remember, I discarted Filesnetwork a long time ago . . .

[Pille]

Who says I am talking about FileFront or this "Mod Network"? FileFront is a relict of the past in a few days, considering you were still able to run around bitching there on EliteForceFiles all the time I could imagine you do have an interest in that community outpost to keep existing though, in a new shape. So with all due respect, either you help like even Hocking is trying in his own way and look over your "FileFront evil, attack!!!" horizon which is completly irrelevant now, or you shut the hell up for once. Thank you

[John]

Important Question

Who is going to become the new version of EFfiles?

I have heard a number of people talking about it and I am unclear

We can get the EFreview site to act as a new site and we are very willing to but we don't want to comit resources if someone else is already doing a new site. So thats why I would liek to know.

---John

[Pille]

It wouldn't be that wise to reveal everything in the public during the early planning phase. Contact me on MSN despite our past differencies, I will explain the whole thing to you. You still know my adress, right..

[The Tenth Doctor]

Pille is doing something, IKS Yo Mamma and us Filefront lot are doing something and I think a couple other "restorations" are in progress as well.

[Pille]

And exactly that is not the case, not the way you put it at least. So please stop these speculations as they don't get anywhere.

[kwaz]

Originally Posted by Dom

If you want to backup for yourself here is a python script I found eariler and modified slightly.

You will need Python lots of bandwidth and basically a webserver to run it on. Just replace EDITME with the subdomain of the site you want to rip (there are two occurrences)

#!/usr/bin/env python
# A quick and VERY DIRTY filefront file ripper.
# LJ
import urllib
import os
import random



def getNames(sPage):
	""" Get a list of mod names from the page."""
	pPage = urllib.urlopen(sPage)
	
	# Find the link.
	print "Looking for links"
	lLines = pPage.readlines()
	lLinks = []
	for sLine in lLines:
			if "/file/" in sLine:
				lLinks.append(sLine)
	for sLink in lLinks:
		print sLink
	return lLinks
	
def doDownload(sPage, sFileName ="s"):
	""" Download a mod at a page with a gofetch link."""
	pPage = urllib.urlopen(sPage)
	
	# Find the link.
	print "Searching for Link"
	sDLine = None
	for sLine in pPage.readlines():
		if "gofetch" in sLine:
			sDLine = sLine.split("/file/gofetch/")[1].split("\"")[0]
			break
		elif "<big><b>Click here to Download the File</b></big></a>  </div><br>  <table summary=\"" in sLine:
			sName = sLine.split("<table summary=\"")[1].split("\"")[0]
			print sName
	if sDLine == "":
		return False
	
	# Download the file.
	print "Downloading Mod File."
	sModFile = "http://EDITME.filefront.com/file/gofetch/" + sDLine
	
	sCommand = "wget --user-agent='Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/2007071317 Firefox/2.0.0.5' --load-cookies=cookies.txt"
	os.popen((sCommand + " --output-document='FULLFOLDERLOCATION"+sName+"_page.html' '" + sPage + "'") )
	os.popen((sCommand + " --output-document='FULLFOLDERLOCATION"+sName+"' '" + sModFile + "'") )
	
	print "Done"
	return sModFile


def downloadCatagoryPage(sCatPath):
	""" Download a catagory page.   NOTE: ensure you set the number of things per-page to 100 and do each page by hand """
	lLinks = getNames(sCatPath)
	for sLink in lLinks:
		try:
			doDownload(sLink)
		except:
			"error downloading" + str(sLink)


## HERE WE DOWNLOAD THE PAGES WE WANT

# The rest of fed ships main
downloadCatagoryPage("http://EDITME.filefront.com/sitemap_raw.txt")

If someone could get that rewritten to read a local copy of the sitemap_raw it would enable users to download a limited amount of files. Or have 2 people reorder the list and one starts from the A links and another stars from Z. Just a thought.