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Batch file to automate yahoo2mbox
by Locoblade - Jan 7th 2008 13:48:29
Hi All
Having struggled getting my Yahoogroup downloaded in a decent amount of
time using yahoo2mbox due to the amount of times my account got locked out
by Yahoo, I just thought I'd share the following batch file with you that I
wrote that resolved it for me, allowed me to download 60,000 messages in
about 4 days without getting locked out.
The script uses 2 usernames/passwords to share the load, so if you only
have one username you'll need to register another, although I just used
another named profile within the same Yahoo user account as even if one
gets locked out, the other seems to continue working.
Copy the entire script below into notepad and save it as runme.bat in a
new folder. In the same folder you'll also need the yahoo2mail.pl file and
also a file called sleep.exe which you can officially get in the Windows
2003 Resource kit, but there's a version here that will also do the job:
http://www.computerhope.com/dutil.htm
Script as follows, copy between the ======
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@echo off
set /p groupname=Set Yahoo Group Name ...
set /p startat=Set message download start number (usually 0)...
set /p add=Set Number of messages to download each time (Recommend
75)...
set /p delay=Set delay time in seconds (Recommend 2)...
set /p username1=Set Username 1 ...
set /p password1=Set Password 1 ...
set /p username1=Set Username 2 ...
set /p password2=Set Password 2 ...
cls
:initial run
set /a endat=%startat%+%add%
yahoo2mbox.pl -user="%username1%" -pass="%password1%"
-verbose --resume -delay=%delay% -end=%endat% "%groupname%"
sleep 90
:continue
set /a endat2=%endat%+%add%
echo %endat2%
yahoo2mbox.pl -user="%username1%" -pass="%password1%"
-verbose --resume -delay=%delay% -end=%endat2% "%groupname%"
set error=%errorlevel%
echo %error%
if not %error%==0 goto retry
set endat=endat2
sleep 90
goto continue
:continue2
set /a endat2=%endat%+%add%
echo %endat2%
yahoo2mbox.pl -user="%username2%" -pass="%password2%"
-verbose --resume -delay=%delay% -end=%endat2% "%groupname%"
set error=%errorlevel%
if not %error%==0 goto retry2
set endat=endat2
sleep 90
goto continue2
:retry
echo %error% >log.txt
yahoo2mbox.pl -user="%username2%" -pass="%password2%"
-verbose --resume -delay=%delay% -end=%endat2% "%groupname%"
set error=%errorlevel%
set endat=endat2
if %error%==0 goto continue2
sleep 900
goto retry2
:retry2
echo %error% >log.txt
yahoo2mbox.pl -user="%username1%" -pass="%password1%"
-verbose --resume -delay=%delay% -end=%endat2% "%groupname%"
set error=%errorlevel%
set endat=endat2
if %error%==0 goto continue
sleep 900
goto retry2
pause
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Once you have the batch file, the sleep.exe and the yahoo2mbox.pl file in
the same location, run the batch file and it will prompt you for the
required information and recommend the delay / download settings I used
that seemed to work without overloading the download limits. If it does
overload and lock out, it will switch to the second account, which should
give time for the first one to unlock again. Once the second one locks out,
it switches back to the first one again and so on.
Hope it helps someone.
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problem with yahoo2mbox
by cmbtr - May 14th 2003 01:20:23
yahoo2mbox version 014 does not retrieve messages
from some yahoogroups where messages archives is closed
and needs a userid and password to login.
there is a long delay after login but no messages are retrieved.
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Age-Restricted Area of Yahoo! Groups.
by James Erbium - Dec 17th 2002 11:22:51
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
You've reached an Age-Restricted Area of Yahoo! Groups.
This area contains material of a mature and adult nature the may not be
suitable for younger users. You must be over the age of 18 to access this
area of Yahoo! Groups.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi...
As you can read the message above, one of my Yahoogroups,
"fun_things" is listed as Age-Restricted Area. When I try to
download from that group, this message came out "please check if you
have specified valid password."
My question, How can we download from this "Age-Restricted
Area".
Thank you.
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Re: Age-Restricted Area of Yahoo! Groups.
by VZ - Dec 23rd 2002 10:01:51
> My question, How can we download from
> this "Age-Restricted Area".
Modifying the script to take into account this additional confirmation
page should be pretty trivial but as I don't have myself any need for this
I don't plan to do it any time soon. Of course, if someone else can make a
patch for this, I'd gladly accept it.
Regards,
VZ
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Re: Age-Restricted Area of Yahoo! Groups.
by VZ - Mar 29th 2003 12:16:18
> % My question, How can we download from
> % this "Age-Restricted Area".
I've forgot to mention here that it is possible to do it starting
from version 0.12 -- or at least should be, I couldn't test it myself.
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failed with yahoo2mbox
by paulus - Nov 7th 2002 07:17:22
yahoo2mbox failed to retrieve message from
yahoogroups and give:
<x-html> tag not found
any idea how to solve this?
thanks.
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Re: failed with yahoo2mbox
by VZ - Nov 7th 2002 14:54:56
> yahoo2mbox failed to retrieve message
> from
> yahoogroups and give:
> <x-html> tag not found
>
> any idea how to solve this?
I've received the reports about it but I don't really know why does it
happen -- so the best would if you could look at the HTML text of the page
you're trying to receive yourself. Normally, the text of the message is
located inside an tag and without it the script is lost.
So the questions are: is this tag there? If not, is the message text
there? And if it is, is there any other way to locate it?
Good luck!
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Re: failed with yahoo2mbox
by Ricardo Gladwell - Mar 26th 2003 03:13:45
>
> % yahoo2mbox failed to retrieve message
> % from
> % yahoogroups and give:
> % <x-html> tag not found
> %
> % any idea how to solve this?
>
>
> I've received the reports about it but I
> don't really know why does it happen
I'm having the same problem although I have a suspicion about the precise
cause of the problem: perhaps this has something to do with the advertising
pages that Yahoo Groups sometimes inserts when attempting to open
particularly mails. How does yahoo2mbox.pl handle these advertising pages
if at all?
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Re: failed with yahoo2mbox
by Ricardo Gladwell - Mar 26th 2003 03:40:02
This occurs because you have reach your download limit: if you look at the
page in question it has the following error:
"The message you requested is temporarily unavailable because this group
has exceeded its download limit. Please try again later."
Since yahoo2mbox.pl appends to an already downloaded list you can simply
try the same command again later. :)
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Re: failed with yahoo2mbox
by VZ - Mar 29th 2003 12:13:54
> This occurs because you have reach your
> download limit
Indeed, thanks for looking into this.
The trouble is that I still don't know what to do about this. Well, I've
at least added a (hopefully) more clear error message and a note about this
in the script description.
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Re: failed with yahoo2mbox
by Paul Wise - Aug 22nd 2003 00:12:49
>
> %
> % % yahoo2mbox failed to retrieve
> message
> % % from
> % % yahoogroups and give:
> % % <x-html> tag not found
> % %
> % % any idea how to solve this?
> %
> %
> % I've received the reports about it but
> I
> % don't really know why does it happen
>
AFAICS yahoo has changed the ouput of view source
messages.
try searching for <!-- start content include
-->
instead of <x-html>. Then you have to deal
with
the multiple <tt> tags, that are used to
contain
different parts of the message. eg the header is
one tt, the body is another & if the message is
multipart/mime there will be heaps of
<tt>stuff
here</tt><br> & it all needs to be
converted.
please im/email me if you want a sample
--
bye, pabs
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Re: failed with yahoo2mbox
by paulus - Aug 26th 2003 00:40:10
> AFAICS yahoo has changed the ouput of
> view source
> messages.
>
> try searching for <!-- start content
> include
> -->
> instead of <x-html>. Then you have
> to deal
> with
> the multiple <tt> tags, that are
> used to
> contain
> different parts of the message. eg the
> header is
> one tt, the body is another & if the
> message is
> multipart/mime there will be heaps of
> <tt>stuff
> here</tt><br> & it all needs
> to be
> converted.
>
> please im/email me if you want a sample
>
Have somebody been able to solve this "x-html tag not found" error
message?
I use yahoo2mbox 0.14 and the problem still occured.
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Re: failed with yahoo2mbox
by Kardiman - Aug 26th 2003 17:52:51
> yahoo2mbox failed to retrieve message
> from
> yahoogroups and give:
> <x-html> tag not found
>
> any idea how to solve this?
i hope this problem will solved soon
--
Keep Amar Ma'ruf Nahi Munkar on the Net, euy!
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Helpful
by Adam Byrtek - Feb 25th 2002 17:48:42
Great idea! Very nice little tool, helped me a lot when I
lost my whole group archives.
Thank you, deleloper(s)!
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What about files
by afterburner - Aug 6th 2004 01:29:59
Hi Is there any way to download files stored on a yahoo group?
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Re: What about files
by websissy - Nov 22nd 2004 10:28:57
> Hi Is there any way to download files
> stored on a yahoo group?
>
>
If you found this tool of interest, then you might find this one helpful
as well.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/grabyahoogroup/
It includes downloads for photos, files, member list, attachments and
messages...
Good Luck!
WebSissy
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