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Feature #254

browser scriptlet to archive Nextdoor posts

Added by Woozle Hypertwin about 3 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Start date:
09/16/2021
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Spent time:

Description

As far as I can tell, Nextdoor has no public API for reading posts, and you can't access them via web without an account -- which can be nontrivial to obtain.

More critically, posts have been unaccountably disappearing from the local Politics group I'm in; nobody is taking credit, but we suspect the active admin (who identifies as "conservative" and does not appear to understand critical thinking) of removing them.

I'd like to be able to quickly archive discussions from this group, using a bookmarklet or whatever seems both reasonably easy to use and reasonably easy to write.

The usage would be:
1. Navigate to a post
2. Click bookmarklet
3. Save post, comments, authors, and any other information that seems to be available in a single file (JSON is fine).

Timestamps are especially difficult to derive from the web UI -- so it would be a nice bonus if those turned up in the DOM, but I'm not expecting it.

2021-09-17 at 17-23-07.screen.Nextdoor sample post.png - screenshot of sample post (354 KB) Woozle Hypertwin, 09/18/2021 01:55 PM

History

#1 Updated by Woozle Hypertwin about 3 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)

#2 Updated by Woozle Hypertwin about 3 years ago

  • Tracker changed from Bug to Feature

#3 Updated by Woozle Hypertwin about 3 years ago

Attached is a screenshot of a sample post. Two post URLs which should be accessible for anyone logged in to Nextdoor:

#4 Updated by Woozle Hypertwin about 3 years ago

Basic functionality now working -- written as a plugin, due to restrictions in what can be done with a bookmarklet or within something like TamperMonkey. I have created [[NDArchive]] for tracking work on the plugin.

#5 Updated by Woozle Hypertwin about 3 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

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