More information about the archiving project can be found on the ArchiveTeam wiki: FTP

Be sure to replace YOURNICKHERE with the nickname that you want to be shown as, on the tracker. You don't need to register it, just pick a nickname you like.

In most of the below cases, there will be a web interface running at http://localhost:8001/. If you don't know or care what this is, you can just ignore it—otherwise, it gives you a fancy view of what's going on.

If anything goes wrong while running the commands below, please scroll down to the bottom of this page. There's troubleshooting information there.

Follow the instructions on the ArchiveTeam wiki for installing the Warrior, and select the "FTP" project in the Warrior interface.

To run this outside the warrior, clone this repository, cd into its directory and run:

pip install --upgrade seesaw

Grab a copy of Wpull 1.2 from https://launchpad.net/wpull/+download:

wget https://launchpad.net/wpull/trunk/v1.2/+download/wpull-1.2-linux-x86_64-3.4.3-20150508185423.zip
python -c "import zipfile; f=zipfile.ZipFile('wpull-1.2-linux-x86_64-3.4.3-20150508185423.zip'); f.extractall('./')"
chmod +x ./wpull

then start downloading with:

run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 YOURNICKHERE

For more options, run:

run-pipeline --help

If you don't have root access and/or your version of pip is very old, you can replace "pip install --upgrade seesaw" with:

wget https://raw.github.com/pypa/pip/master/contrib/get-pip.py ; python get-pip.py --user ; ~/.local/bin/pip install --user seesaw

so that pip and seesaw are installed in your home, then run

~/.local/bin/run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 YOURNICKHERE

This feature requires seesaw version 0.0.16 or greater. Use pip install --upgrade seesaw to upgrade.

Use the --context-value argument to pass in bind_address=123.4.5.6 (replace the IP address with your own).

Example of running 2 threads, no web interface, and Wget binding of IP address:

run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 YOURNICKHERE --disable-web-server --context-value bind_address=123.4.5.6

adduser --system --group --shell /bin/bash archiveteam
apt-get update && install -y git-core libgnutls-dev screen python-dev python-pip bzip2 zlib1g-dev unzip
pip install --upgrade seesaw
su -c "cd /home/archiveteam; git clone https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ftp-grab.git" archiveteam
su -c "cd /home/archiveteam/ftp-grab/; wget https://launchpad.net/wpull/trunk/v1.2/+download/wpull-1.2-linux-x86_64-3.4.3-20150508185423.zip; unzip wpull-1.2-linux-x86_64-3.4.3-20150508185423.zip; chmod +x ./wpull" archiveteam
screen su -c "cd /home/archiveteam/ftp-grab/; run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 --address '127.0.0.1' YOURNICKHERE" archiveteam
[... ctrl+A D to detach ...]

Ensure that you have the CentOS equivalent of bzip2 installed as well. You might need the EPEL repository to be enabled.

yum -y install gnutls-devel python-pip zlib-devel unzip
pip install --upgrade seesaw
[... pretty much the same as above ...]

zypper install screen python-pip libgnutls-devel bzip2 python-devel gcc make unzip
pip install --upgrade seesaw
[... pretty much the same as above ...]

You need Homebrew. Ensure that you have the OS X equivalent of bzip2 installed as well.

brew install python gnutls unzip
pip install --upgrade seesaw
[... pretty much the same as above ...]

There is a known issue with some packaged versions of rsync. If you get errors during the upload stage, ftp-grab will not work with your rsync version.

This supposedly fixes it:

alias rsync=/usr/local/bin/rsync

Ensure that you have the Arch equivalent of bzip2 installed as well.

1. Make sure you have python2-pip installed.
2. Run pip2 install seesaw.
3. Modify the run-pipeline script in seesaw to point at #!/usr/bin/python2 instead of #!/usr/bin/python.
4. useradd --system --group users --shell /bin/bash --create-home archiveteam
5. su -c "cd /home/archiveteam; git clone https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/ftp-grab.git" archiveteam
6. su -c "cd /home/archiveteam/ftp-grab/; wget https://launchpad.net/wpull/trunk/v1.2/+download/wpull-1.2-linux-x86_64-3.4.3-20150508185423.zip; unzip wpull-1.2-linux-x86_64-3.4.3-20150508185423.zip; chmod +x ./wpull" archiveteam
7. screen su -c "cd /home/archiveteam/ftp-grab/; run-pipeline pipeline.py --concurrent 2 --address '127.0.0.1' YOURNICKHERE" archiveteam

Nothing specific here. If not so, please do let us know on IRC (irc.efnet.org #archiveteam).

Broken? These are some of the possible solutions:

If you have trouble getting Wpull running, please see http://wpull.readthedocs.org/en/master/install.html.

Please ensure that gnutls-dev(el) and openssl-dev(el) are installed.

If you're sure that you followed the steps to install seesaw, permissions on your module directory may be set incorrectly. Try the following:

chmod o+rX -R /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

Install seesaw using pip2 instead of pip.

pip2 install seesaw

If you notice a bug and want to file a bug report, please use the GitHub issues tracker.

Are you a developer? Help write code for us! Look at our developer documentation for details.

Have an issue not listed here? Join us on IRC and ask! We can be found at irc.efnet.org #effteepee.