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IgnoredAmbience / yahoo-group-archiver

Scrapes and archives a Yahoo groups email archives, photo galleries and file contents using the non-public API
MIT License
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RFE: Idiot-proof way to specify email start or stop number #42

Closed ugcheleuce closed 4 years ago

ugcheleuce commented 4 years ago

Request for enhancement:

It would be nice if you can add an idiot-proof way to specify from which message to start downloading, and optionally also specify up to which message should be downloaded. [I don't know Python and my tinkering with yahoo.py was unsuccessful.] This would allow one to continue after a while, or to download only certain messages (if there are too many).

One implementation may be to allow users to specify "startatmail" and "stopatmail" variables near the top of yahoo.py.

dossy commented 4 years ago

@ugcheleuce check my dossy branch in my dossy/yahoo-group-archiver fork, where I've introduced --start and --stop for email archiving that lets you specify a starting and ending message ID to extract.

n4mwd commented 4 years ago

This would be a good feature for photos and files as well. Sometimes the download stops due to an crash or user intervention and it would be great to be able to restart where it was left off.

ugcheleuce commented 4 years ago

https://github.com/IgnoredAmbience/yahoo-group-archiver/issues/42#issuecomment-545923269 @ugcheleuce check my dossy branch in my dossy/yahoo-group-archiver fork, where I've introduced --start and --stop for email archiving that lets you specify a starting and ending message ID to extract.

Thanks for your reply, @dossy. I could not get the dossy version to work (got an unindent related error), but I'll check both projects again closer to the deadline.