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May 31, 2021 · Learn how to find and download your Yahoo! Groups messages, metadata and images from the Internet Archive, a non-profit organization that preserves online content. Follow the steps to search by group name, download CSV and TAR files, and view WARC files with a web tool.
- 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/
Yahoo! Groups was a free-to-use system of electronic mailing lists offered by Yahoo!. Prior to February 2020, Yahoo! Groups was one of the world's largest collections of online discussion boards. It allowed members to subscribe to various groups, read subscribed discussions online, view and share photos, files and bookmarks within a group ...
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- Getting Started: Create a Yahoo account. In order to access Yahoo Groups you will need a Yahoo account. Create an account by going to www.Yahoo.com and clicking “Mail.”Follow the prompts to create a new account.
- Finding Groups: Find a group by browsing. Select from the different categories listed on the Yahoo Groups main page found at www.groups.yahoo.com. Categories include Business & Finance, Computers & Internet, Family & Home, Government & Politics, Hobbies & Crafts, Romance & Relationships, Schools & Education, and many more.Start looking for a group by clicking on any of these categories.Clicking on a group name will reveal a description of the group.
- Joining a Group: Join a group that interests you. Once you have found a group, ask to join. On the group page, click the “Join Group” link.If the group is restricted, the group owner or administrator will need to approve your request before you can join the group.If the group is open, you will be automatically added to the group.Once you’re in the group you can access the messages, photos, files, and everything else posted on the group.
- Subscribing to a Group's Mailing List: Receive emails from a group. You can receive emails from a group without joining. To subscribe, send a blank email to groupname-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.Replace “groupname” with the actual name of the group.
October 12, 2020 · 1 min read. Yahoo has put the final nail in the coffin for its social media platform Yahoo Groups, announcing on Monday that the 20 year-old service will shut down on Dec. 15 ...
ArchiveTeam FAQ for members, mods, and owners of Yahoo Groups. We've received a variety of questions from former Yahoo Groups members, mods, and owners asking what ArchiveTeam is and what we are trying to do with Yahoo Groups archives. This is a list of answers to those questions.
Oct 18, 2019 · Export your Yahoo Groups data before December 14. Starting October 28, 2019, Yahoo is disabling all uploading- and communication-related features in Yahoo groups, including: Conversations...
