IRC Quotes

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== What's this, then? ==
In 2011 ,Auguste, BlueMax and Dr-Spangle scraped IRC quote databases (e.g. Bash.org). The channel was #bashup on EFNet.
== Project Hosting ==
Auguste hosted the scrapes here before that site went down. As far as we can tell, despite this wiki page previously encouraging people to mirror this directory, the closest thing that ever happened was this subset on IA.
== QdbScraper ==
QdbScraper is a Perl script for scraping QdbS-powered quote databases (e.g. Auguste's ArchiveTeam QDB, which ironically does not seem to have been mirrored anywhere itself). At the moment, it's only capable of scraping QdbS installations that use the default template and/or minimal customization. Support for other common templates is coming soon.
== Helping Out ==
Scraping doesn't take a lot of work; the QDBs are all more or less the same. You only need to write one script, then make a few changes to adapt it to any other QDB you want to scrape. The actual scraping process should easily take under 10 minutes.
If you do want to help with the scraping, please follow the existing scrape format:
* Each quote has its own file
* Each file is named 'n.txt', where 'n' is the quote's ID number
* All quotes should be compressed into an archive
* The archive name should identify the original location (URL) and date of scraping (e.g. 'QuoteIRC.com Quote Collection 2011-04-04.7z', or 'DOMAIN.TLD Quote Collection YYYY-MM-DD.EXT').
** If the original location (URL) has subdirectories (e.g. 'Foobar.com/baz'), replace forward slashes with hyphens: 'Foobar.com-baz'.
Tips
* Scrape from the browse page (e.g. http://bash.org/?browse). This way you can scrape 10-50 quotes per page request, rather than cycling through thousands of individual quote pages.
== Project Status ==
Database 	Has been scraped	Scraper 	Notes
Bash.org 	Yes 	Dr-Spangle	The quote database that pretty much created all others.
BombLol.net/ornot 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
DeadDyingDamned.com/qdb/ 	No 	 	The unofficial ArchiveTeam QDB. I'll have the server automatically save these somewhere. --Auguste 13:36, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
DeanyDerkheiser.net/qdb 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
FreqBase.com/qdb 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
Frostfall-Guild.com/ff/qdb 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
german-bash.org 	Yes (here) 	Darkstar 	German version of bash.org
I-Rox.com 	Yes 	Auguste 	
ibash.de 	Yes (here) 	Darkstar 	Another German quotes DB
JDL.Host.HK-DIY.net/quote 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
LinuxCult.org/quotes 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
LolImBanned.com 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
Mandaliet.com/furcqdb/ 	Yes 	Auguste 	The Furcadia quote database
MoarPupr.com/quotes 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
NotSafeForSanity.com/quotes	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
Pilkipedia.co.uk/qdb 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
QDB.Honk-Honk.org 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
QDB.MIT.edu 	Yes 	Auguste 	The MIT quote database
QDB.PesterChum.net 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
QDB.us 	Yes 	Auguste 	
QDBS.ChanOps.org 	Yes 	Auguste 	Generic QdbS QDB
QuoteIRC.com 	Yes 	Auguste 	
Quotes.BurntElectrons.org 	Yes 	Auguste 	The IRC.Mozilla.org quote database
WarpDrive.se 	Yes 	Auguste 	Quotes are in Swedish
WQDB.org 	Yes 	Auguste 	The Worms quote database
xkcdb.com 	Yes 	Auguste 	The xkcd quote database
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