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source for marknormanfrancis.com

This is the source text, scripts, and configuration to build my site with flourish.

import scripts

• add_instagram

  Add a TOML source file for every instagram photo in an instagram data export. Uploads the images to S3.

• find_tweets

  Find tweets that match given criteria (eg. a number of likes/retweets, has a photo, etc) from a twitter data export.

• add_tweets

  Add a TOML source file for every tweet listed in data/tweet_ids.toml.

Run them with honcho run script/... to use environment variables from .env. Can be run repeatedly to refresh TOML (eg to update the likes on a tweet).

Fetching archives

I included four screengrabs of previous iterations of this site in the post on finishing the 2020 restoration. These were fetched from the Wayback Machine using the script get_archive:

# fetch a site's homepage at a point in time
script/get_archive 20111031 marknormanfrancis.com

# fetch a post/file from a site at a point in time
script/get_archive 20210531 marknormanfrancis.com /about-the-rebuild

The first argument is the date. This can as general as a year (2021), or as specific as a day and time (20210509021558). The Wayback Machine will redirect generic dates to the next available backup (eg. on my site, 2020 fetches 20210128020922, but 20200601 fetches 20200615174443).

The script fetches the page and linked assets (images, CSS, JS), and removes the toolbar inserted by the Wayback Machine.