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The plugin is frozen on Quora. #77

Open mgeduld opened 7 years ago

mgeduld commented 7 years ago

After running all night, it is stuck on "Showing 8372 of 8373 answers." It's been stuck like that for at least an hour. It would be nice if there was a way to get the answers it has downloaded so far, even if it's crashed. Now I'll have to start it all over again. And I already did that once. Last time it crashed after three thousand or so answers.

eloquence commented 7 years ago

Sorry about that. The reason the plugin freezes is most likely simply due to browser/memory limitations as the page gets too large to handle. This tends to be a problem for accounts with more than >5,000 answers or so.

It would seem logical to just download the answers page-by-page instead of loading them all on one page, but unfortunately, in that case Quora would very quickly block the user's IP from accessing Quora at all!

There are a few workarounds I still want to try, but for now I'd recommend holding off since it likely would just fail again. If you give me your Quora profile URL (something like https://www.quora.com/profile/Erik-Moeller-2/answers but with your username), I can use it to experiment and will let you know if I manage to get a full download.

mgeduld commented 7 years ago

Thanks. It's https://www.quora.com/profile/Marcus-Geduld/answers

eloquence commented 6 years ago

I've just released a major update to the extension (0.4.0) that should be a lot more tolerant of errors on the Quora side, and also faster with huge answer sets. Chrome auto-updates extensions, but to be sure, you can uninstall and reinstall the extension from https://freeyourstuff.cc/ - you can find the version you're running by putting chrome://extensions in the address bar.

There may be new errors, too! :-) Please give it a spin and let me know if it works for you now.