A python script to backup the contents of Yahoo! groups, be they private or public.
The project requires Python 3.5+, Mongo, and a computer with a GUI as Selenium is used for the scraping (to be able to handle private groups).
virtualenv is recommended.
git clone https://github.com/csaftoiu/yahoo-groups-backup.git
cd yahoo-groups-backup
pip install -r requirements.txt
To scrape an entire site, say the concatenative group:
./yahoo-groups-backup.py scrape_messages concatenative
This will shove all the messages into a Mongo database (default localhost:27017), into the database of the same name as the group.
To scrape the files as well (though this group has no files):
./yahoo-groups-backup.py scrape_files concatenative
To dump the site as a human-friendly, fully static (i.e. viewable from the file system) website:
./yahoo-groups-backup.py dump_site concatenative concatenative_static_site
Then simply open concatenative_static_site/index.html and browse!
To see the full usage:
./yahoo-groups-backup.py -h