Open rescue plan for the gfycat demise?

[WAZAAAAA]

To @Matt Ponton or anyone with FSD database access: what about mass replacing the dead gfycat.com links with archive.org ones? I figured from this post you don't seem against this kind of stuff



alright so, popular video clip site gfycat.com dies on 2023-09-01 leaving a hole in the internet, including this forum
but the Archive Team comes in clutch in the last days and saves most of it into the Internet Archive, so a previously dead link can live again with some link replacements

https://gfycat.com/candidinsidiousgreatdane
->
https://web.archive.org/web/0if_/https://thumbs.gfycat.com/candidinsidiousgreatdane-mobile.mp4

I told this to the kekken frame data discord bot creator, and he put a band-aid fix, better than nothing, everyone's happy
I posted about it in the shitty /r/gfycat subreddit, pretty useful for surfing the web in general, everyone's happy
now what about FSD

dealing with all the types of gfycat links is a convoluted mess considering these were all valid for the same clip:

https://gfycat.com/candidinsidiousgreatdane regular
https://giant.gfycat.com/CandidInsidiousGreatdane.webm direct video HQ
https://giant.gfycat.com/CandidInsidiousGreatdane.mp4 direct video HQ
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CandidInsidiousGreatdane-mobile.mp4 direct video LQ
https://gfycat.com/ifr/candidinsidiousgreatdane minimal, but does not embed on Discord
https://gfycat.com/candidinsidiousgreatdane.gif no controls
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CandidInsidiousGreatdane-size_restricted.gif GIF
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CandidInsidiousGreatdane-mobile.jpg thumbnail
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CandidInsidiousGreatdane.webp animated thumbnail?
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CandidInsidiousGreatdane-max-1mb.gif old no longer used
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CandidInsidiousGreatdane-max-14mb.gif old no longer used

here's the abhorrent regex I came up with to auto-fix dead links

	REGEX FLAVOR:
dunno it's the one from Notepad++, case insensitive, ". matches newline" OFF


	SEARCH 1: (replace gfycat.com with archive.org links)
([^/])https?:\/\/(?:[^/]*\.)?gfycat.com\/(?:ifr\/)?([A-z]*)([-a-zA-Z0-9()@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)
	REPLACE 1:
\1https://web.archive.org/web/0if_/https://thumbs.gfycat.com/\2-mobile.mp4


	SEARCH 2: (remove [IMG][/IMG] tags from replaced gif links to turn them into clickable links instead. Not thoroughly tested, unexpected consequences DANGER)
\[IMG\](.+?)\/web\/0if_(.+?)\[\/IMG\]
	REPLACE 2:
\1/web/0if_\2

The idea is to apply that quick 'n dirty Search&Replace to the whole ass forum database to fix dead links. I'm not even sure how the db looks like, that regex is just my guess based on BBcode. And I mean, dead gifs still won't preview, but at least they'll be clickable.
Just... I don't want to be responsible if things explode lmao please make backups if it's getting attempted

 

[Matt Ponton]

The site is backed up each day, but also it'd have to involve a heavy job use for the MySQL database that is the database. It's not impossible, but not something I'd be looking to be doing any time soon.