Update: Turns out all was working. The 404s were on account of the first few hundred messages being deleted by hand (it was a very contentious group in the early days ;-). Now I'm locked out with a 500, though I am still able to read from my browser. Will let some time pass and try again. Thanks!
I got this far. I set the cookies in archive_group.py
Archiving group 'nameofmygroup', mode: update , on Sun Dec 1 23:22:55 2019 Archiving message 1 of 1759 Cannot get message 1, attempt 1 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404 Cannot get message 1, attempt 2 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404 Cannot get message 1, attempt 3 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404 Failed to retrive message 1 due to HTTP status code 404 Archiving message 2 of 1759 Cannot get message 2, attempt 1 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404 Cannot get message 2, attempt 2 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404 Cannot get message 2, attempt 3 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404 Failed to retrive message 2 due to HTTP status code 404
Update2: Okay! I just discovered that this project has been archived and that yahoo-group-archiver is being recommended (which seems to be doing the trick) https://github.com/IgnoredAmbience/yahoo-group-archiver
Update: Turns out all was working. The 404s were on account of the first few hundred messages being deleted by hand (it was a very contentious group in the early days ;-). Now I'm locked out with a 500, though I am still able to read from my browser. Will let some time pass and try again. Thanks!
I got this far. I set the cookies in archive_group.py
I wonder if the problem could be related to this group being left over from the OLD version of yahoo groups? The url formatting for the messages in my (private) group is : https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/NAMEOFMYGROUP/conversations/messages/1754 Is there some way I could reformat the request?
Archiving group 'nameofmygroup', mode: update , on Sun Dec 1 23:22:55 2019
Archiving message 1 of 1759
Cannot get message 1, attempt 1 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404
Cannot get message 1, attempt 2 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404
Cannot get message 1, attempt 3 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404
Failed to retrive message 1 due to HTTP status code 404
Archiving message 2 of 1759
Cannot get message 2, attempt 1 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404
Cannot get message 2, attempt 2 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404
Cannot get message 2, attempt 3 of 3 due to HTTP status code 404
Failed to retrive message 2 due to HTTP status code 404