On 2019-10-26, Gerardo Ballabio <gerardo.balla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you, but I need some more help. > > I've downloaded the script, but the README says that I need to supply > "the T and Y cookie" and that I should be able to extract them from my > browser. > > My browser is Firefox. I've checked and it doesn't seem to provide a > way to extract cookies. Apparently that requires installing an > extension, and I don't know whether Debian provides that (I'd rather > avoid installing random extensions from the Internet).
It appears login.yahoo.com creates 2 cookies (named Y and T). ./yahoo.py -ct 'YOUR_T_COOKIE' -cy 'YOUR_Y_COOKIE' groupname Apparently, you paste the value (this is what is meant by the term "extraction") of the respective cookies (Tools/Web Developer/Storage Inspector in Firefox as per Jeremy N.) into the command line above, i.e. ./yahoo.py -ct <T cookie value> -cy <Y cookie value> groupname This gleaned here: https://github.com/nsapa/yahoo-group-archiver Good luck. > Furthermore I don't know what "the T and Y cookie" are and how to find > them among other cookies. > > Any help will be much appreciated. > > Thanks > Gerardo > > Il giorno mar 22 ott 2019 alle ore 22:12 Dan Ritter ><d...@randomstring.org> ha scritto: >> >> Gerardo Ballabio wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > I've learned that Yahoo Groups is going to drop most of its >> > functionality, in particular it won't host any user contents any more, >> > including the email archive. >> > >> > I'm a member of a private group, we have an archive of several >> > thousands email messages that we don't want to lose. >> > >> > May I please ask for suggestions on how to mass-download the email >> > archive from a Debian (Buster) machine? >> > >> > I'm not subscribed to this list, please keep me Cc:'d. >> >> This >> >> https://github.com/nsapa/yahoo-group-archiver >> >> should work on Debian without much fussing. >> >> -dsr- > > -- We do not remember what we might have been before birth. This, and only this, gives hope of oblivion.--Insufficient! William T. Vollmann, "Supernatural Axioms"
