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May 31, 2021 · Thankfully, owing to the efforts of the Save Yahoo Groups Project and Archive Team the data of many groups has been preserved. If you missed out on the GYD tool, you might still be able to retrieve your groups’ data by following the steps below.
Jun 3, 2023 · The Most Extensive Yahoo! Groups Archive - Main Hub
Dec 6, 2020 · Yahoo! Groups’ mailing lists, which are the last remaining part of Yahoo! Groups, will be shutting down in 10 days, on December 15, 2020. However, since group content is no longer accessible to the public, there is little left to archive.
- The State of Preservation
- Submitting Group Data to The Public Archive
- Project History
- Private Groups of Interest
- Statistics
- Site Structure
- Software For Archiving Groups
- Software For Viewing Archives
- Other Archiving Efforts
- Coverage
Summary
The remnants of Yahoo Groups information is split among several pieces, some of which are uploaded to IA, some of which will hopefully be publicly uploaded in the future, and some of which are not suitable to be made public and will presumably be kept darked or otherwise restricted on IA. The difficulty of sorting out group data between the last two categories is the chief obstacle to uploading what we have. There are also some privacy-ok files that never got uploaded, some of which we have,...
Group Publicity
From our standpoint a group could be in one of the following categories with respect to privacy: 1. Public groups. 2. Groups we requested to join, whose join request was still pending and had not yet expired. (Obviously there are none of these left, but for reasons explained below this stage is of great importance.) 3. Groups we requested to join and got accepted to, either manually or automatically. ("Actively accepted") 4. Groups we requested to join and got rejected from ("Actively denied"...
The GetMyData process
After Yahoo closed the normal Groups interface as well as the API, there was only one avenue to continue to get information from it: "GetMyData", a process intended for people who were already in groups to get relevant records. ArchiveTeam, and parallel to it the fandom project, exploited this in order to try to get better coverage. "Get My Data files are a set of .zip files up to 2GB each. Each one has a variable number of groups in them (however many would fit in the 2GB). Each group has a...
Were you a member of a public group (one that did not require administrator approval to join)? Were you an admin of a private group whose members consent to be part of the public archive? Did you save the group yourself, using GetMyData or any other method? If so, we'd love to have your archives. Upload to a fileshare such as WeTransfer, Dropbox, G...
Data collection for this project is over. Yahoo! Groups content is now inaccessible; although we continue to accept individual archives made by group members and admins, we can no longer archive additional groups. While the project was active, volunteers could help in the following ways:
numberactivation (see all the press coverage; FOI request). Some external lists: List of groups with Fanlore pages (contains both private and public groups), Archive Trans Yahoo's list (all private at last check), Archive South Asian American Yahoo Groups (all public), and Queer Digital History Project(no groups listed, presumably all private).
As of 2019-10-16 the directorylists 5619351 groups. 2752112 of them have been discovered. 1483853 (54%) have public message archives with an estimated number of 2.1 billion messages (1389 messages per group on average so far). 1.8 billion messages (86%) have been archived as of 2018-10-28. The following graphs are slightly outdated:
There was a convenient JSON API, most endpoints of which are now down. Some endpoints require logged-in group membership or other permissions (depending on group settings).
Python
1. yahoo-group-archiver scraped a group using the JSON API and (for private endpoints) the two cookies Yahoo uses to verify a logged-in user. Optionally, it could produce WARCs. ArchiveTeam's preferred tool and fully featured at the time of closure. 1.1. Yahoo Group Archive Tools (a Perl script) converts yahoo-group-archiver output into clean rfc822 and mbox files, with separated attachments correctly reattached, and many Yahoo truncation/redaction bugs corrected. It also turns list archives...
Other
1. PGOffline: Windows, proprietary. 14-day free trial, after which download and export is disabled (but view still works). Included attachments. Stores data in a SQLite database internally. 1.1. pgo2mboxconverts PGOffline pg4 files to mbox. 2. Yahoo Messages Export: Chrome extension. Messages only. Saves as mbox. 3. Yahoo Group Archiver: Perl, defunct.
Yahoo Groups Fandom Rescue ProjectMods and Membershttps://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/10/17/yahoo-groups-online-forum-shutdown/4007150002/
- Partially saved
- Offline
Groups has been shut down and is now inaccessible; no new archives can be made, and data which was not already saved is now gone forever. The rest of this FAQ has been left up as a historical document.
On February 1, 2020, Yahoo! removed online access to discussions and all other features except simple membership management, essentially turning all groups into mailing lists, and on October 13, 2020, it announced that Yahoo Groups would shut down completely on December 15, 2020.
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