YahooGrab Beta 1
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YahooGrab is a standalone application which will download a range of messages from the Yahoo! Messageboards. Currently, it can only download the messages from the Xterra Messageboard. If there is enough interest, I will continue to update this application. By the way, YahooGrab is absolutely FREE (but you can sign up with my sponsors, every little bit helps - and they are cool sites)!!!
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Why I wrote YahooGrab
The Xterra Messageboard has over 15000 messages. Yahoo! does not have a search utility for their messageboard. I remembered a post describing how to "adjust" the cruise control switch so it is always on. To look through that many messages would have taken me forever. YahooGrab is a prettied-up version of the command line program I wrote. It is still in Beta stage & may have bugs. Once the messages are downloaded to your hard drive, you can search the messages whenever you want.
YahooGrab.zip 7/26/00 9,717 bytes
Zip File Contents:
YahooGrab.EXE - The YahooGrab Application Executable
* You MUST be connected to the internet for YahooGrab to work
* I advise selectig 5 or 10 messages to test the app the first time
* The Target directory MUST exist
* Any files in the Target directory may be overwritten without warning
* Message file names are in the format : MSGxxxxx.htm where xxxxx is the
message number
* This utility is not super fast, but it is a lot faster & easier than you
clicking
* When you try to abort the downloads, give it a few seconds to finish the
current message
Report any errors to: visegrip@adelphia.net
YahooGrab ver 1.0 BETA
Copyright 2000
Art Weiss, Jr.
