Topic: Is there some sort of NSFW wayback?

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nanomecho

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I tried to use the wayback machine for X posts, but there is the problem of NSFW and login. Any suggestions?

TheGreatWolfgang

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nanomecho said:
I tried to use the wayback machine for X posts, but there is the problem of NSFW and login. Any suggestions?

The Wayback Machine does not archive Twitter/X profiles that well due to how the site is designed.
It may be able to archive certain tweets if you had the specific link saved, but it may not work for tweets with content filters (such as NSFW ones).

Your best bet for getting any sort of content out of those deleted profiles is to try and get into contact with the artist somewhere else or look for alternative sources.

BraixenArchivist

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nanomecho said:
I tried to use the wayback machine for X posts, but there is the problem of NSFW and login. Any suggestions?

If the post was available in 2014 and you're insane enough to figure out how WARCs work there's the Archive Team Twitpic Paranoia Grab

Otherwise I have had very limited success using the website "buhitter" as a sort of search engine frontend for Twitter. I think if the post was hidden but not deleted, you can sometimes grab the tweet ID from buhitter and then use something like fxtwitter to get the image URL. It's been a while since I got up to shenanigans like that though so I may be missing some steps.

If it was totally deleted you'll have to either ask the artist or find someone who happened to download it.

Errorist

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Xcancel bypasses the login check, but I don't think it archives anything; it just remotes in via the API in real time from some bot accounts. And it blocks bots from accessing it, ironically, so Wayback probably doesn't archive it either. Also you'd need to know the exact URL of the original post to find anything older than a few years because even Xcancel can't bypass the hard limit imposed by X on how far back you can browse.

hsauq

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errorist said:
And it blocks bots from accessing it, ironically, so Wayback probably doesn't archive it either.

Do you know if this is being done on other Nitter instances?