More information about the archiving project can be found on the ArchiveTeam wiki: Google+
Be sure to replace YOURNICKHERE with the nickname that you want to be shown as, on the tracker. You don't need to register it, just pick a nickname you like.
In most of the below cases, there will be a web interface running at http://localhost:8001/. If you don't know or care what this is, you can just ignore it—otherwise, it gives you a fancy view of what's going on.
If anything goes wrong while running the commands below, please scroll down to the bottom of this page. There's troubleshooting information there.
Follow the instructions on the ArchiveTeam wiki for installing the Warrior, and select the "Google+" project in the Warrior interface.
To run this outside the warrior, clone this repository, cd into its directory and run:
pip install --upgrade seesaw
./get-wget-lua.sh
then start downloading with:
run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 YOURNICKHERE
For more options, run:
run-pipeline --help
If you don't have root access and/or your version of pip is very old, you can replace "pip install --upgrade seesaw" with:
wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py ; python get-pip.py --user ; ~/.local/bin/pip install --upgrade --user seesaw
so that pip and seesaw are installed in your home, then run
~/.local/bin/run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 YOURNICKHERE
This feature requires seesaw version 0.0.16 or greater. Use pip install --upgrade seesaw to upgrade.
Use the --context-value argument to pass in bind_address=123.4.5.6 (replace the IP address with your own).
Example of running 2 threads, no web interface, and Wget binding of IP address:
run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 YOURNICKHERE --disable-web-server --context-value bind_address=123.4.5.6
adduser --system --group --shell /bin/bash archiveteam
apt-get update && apt-get install -y git-core libgnutls-dev lua5.1 liblua5.1-0 liblua5.1-0-dev screen python-dev python-pip bzip2 zlib1g-dev flex autoconf
pip install --upgrade seesaw
su -c "cd /home/archiveteam; git clone https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab.git; cd googleplus-grab; ./get-wget-lua.sh" archiveteam
screen su -c "cd /home/archiveteam/googleplus-grab/; run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 --address '127.0.0.1' YOURNICKHERE" archiveteam
[... ctrl+A D to detach ...]
In Debian Jessie, Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic and above, the libgnutls-dev package was renamed to libgnutls28-dev. So, you need to do the following instead:
adduser --system --group --shell /bin/bash archiveteam
apt-get update && apt-get install -y git-core libgnutls28-dev lua5.1 liblua5.1-0 liblua5.1-0-dev screen python-dev python-pip bzip2 zlib1g-dev flex autoconf
[... pretty much the same as above ...]
Wget-lua is also available on ArchiveTeam's PPA for Ubuntu.
And you may also need to update your Python's warcio if you find screen detaching immediately after running the job in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic and above:
pip install warcio --upgrade
Ensure that you have the CentOS equivalent of bzip2 installed as well. You will the EPEL repository to be enabled.
yum -y install autoconf automake flex gnutls-devel lua-devel python-pip zlib-devel
pip install --upgrade seesaw
[... pretty much the same as above ...]
zypper install liblua5_1 lua51 lua51-devel screen python-pip libgnutls-devel bzip2 python-devel gcc make
pip install --upgrade seesaw
[... pretty much the same as above ...]
You need Homebrew. Ensure that you have the OS X equivalent of bzip2 installed as well.
brew install python lua gnutls
pip install --upgrade seesaw
[... pretty much the same as above ...]
There is a known issue with some packaged versions of rsync. If you get errors during the upload stage, googleplus-grab will not work with your rsync version.
This supposedly fixes it:
alias rsync=/usr/local/bin/rsync
Ensure that you have the Arch equivalent of bzip2 installed as well.
- Make sure you have
python2-pipinstalled. - Install the wget-lua package from the AUR.
- Run
pip2 install --upgrade seesaw. - Modify the run-pipeline script in seesaw to point at
#!/usr/bin/python2instead of#!/usr/bin/python. useradd --system --group users --shell /bin/bash --create-home archiveteamscreen su -c "cd /home/archiveteam/googleplus-grab/; run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 --address '127.0.0.1' YOURNICKHERE" archiveteam
apk add lua5.1 git python bzip2 bash rsync gcc libc-dev lua5.1-dev zlib-dev gnutls-dev autoconf flex make
python -m ensurepip
pip install -U seesaw
git clone https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab
cd googleplus-grab; ./get-wget-lua.sh
run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 --address '127.0.0.1' YOURNICKHERE
Honestly, I have no idea. ./get-wget-lua.sh supposedly doesn't work due to differences in the tar that ships with FreeBSD. Another problem is the apparent absence of Lua 5.1 development headers. If you figure this out, please do let us know on IRC (irc.efnet.org #archiveteam).
Broken? These are some of the possible solutions:
If you get errors about wget.pod or something similar, the documentation failed to compile - wget-lua, however, compiled fine. Try this:
cd get-wget-lua.tmp
mv src/wget ../wget-lua
cd ..
The get-wget-lua.tmp name may be inaccurate. If you have a folder with a similar but different name, use that instead and please let us know on IRC what folder name you had!
Optionally, if you know what you're doing, you may want to use wgetpod.patch.
Please ensure that gnutls-dev(el) and openssl-dev(el) are installed.
If you're sure that you followed the steps to install seesaw, permissions on your module directory may be set incorrectly. Try the following:
chmod o+rX -R /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages
Install seesaw using pip2 instead of pip.
pip2 install seesaw
If you notice a bug and want to file a bug report, please use the GitHub issues tracker.
Are you a developer? Help write code for us! Look at our developer documentation for details.
Have an issue not listed here? Join us on IRC and ask! We can be found at irc.efnet.org #googleminus.