You can run an Archive Team container on your computer! It'll help crawl the web and putting stuff into archive.org, based on the current projects.
You don't have to be super technical to do this, but a little computer skill will help you out.
Walkthrough below the cut (tl;dr docker compose + this config, or a vm from here):
also it's using links fetched from other archived public webpages (as opposed to guessing all imgur urls), so its less likely to pick up anyone's secret images they don't wish to be archived
if you missed it, imgur got bought out and announced that they'll be deleting old images and also any NSFW content starting May 15
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EDIT: if you feel adventurous and want to spin up some freebie cloud machines to do more archival, here's some free trials from cloud providers:
- Google Cloud trial with $300 of credits
- DigitalOcean trial with $200 of credits
- Azure trial with $200 of credits
(not affiliated, just want to enable you to go make a bunch of extra archivers if you want)
Edit/bump for those who saw this earlier: I just checked in with people on the archive team IRC before embarking on plan "spin up one trillion Azure container instances;" they're backend-limited right now and don't need any more workers on imgur specifically. if you think it would be fun to do this, set SELECTED_PROJECT to "auto"
i came up with a cloud-init script that configures a Hetzner Cloud server (using the Ubuntu Docker CE cloud image) and starts a Warrior. It may also work with other cloud providers that use cloud-init.
#cloud-config
packages:
- docker-compose
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true
write_files:
- encoding: b64
content: [BASE64 ENCODED DOCKER-COMPOSE.YML GOES HERE]
owner: root:root
path: /root/docker-compose.yml
permissions: '0777'
runcmd:
- docker compose -f /root/docker-compose.yml up -d bind watchtower at_warrior
Edit catball's docker-compose file with your chosen settings, and drop the base64 in place of the bracketed part. A Warrior seems to fit comfortably in 2GB of RAM.
thank u!