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[TryNinja]

Anyway, I can tell you for sure that ninjastic.space won't help you with that. Why? Note that the number of posts in satoshi's profile and the number of posts found by ninjastic are different, and ninjastic shows that satoshi has 528 posts, while in his profile the number of posts is 575. That is, ninjastic does not take into account all of satoshi's posts. While it can account for deleted posts, you'd have to open each of the 528 posts on ninjastic to see if satoshi had deleted posts.

Why is that, though? Are those posts from the Staff board (or other private boards)?

Didn't LoyceV scrape all old posts that could be publicly found? What did he miss, which is now also missing from my archive?

Thanks, im testing this tool, but I don't understand how to find if a post is deleted, edit or just normal.

You can't unless you check everything manually or write your own tool to check post by post.

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[LoyceMobile]

I recently discovered (when someone pointed it out) that my scraper failed to go to the second page on some threads, meaning it may have missed hundreds of pages.

[Xal0lex]

Anyway, I can tell you for sure that ninjastic.space won't help you with that. Why? Note that the number of posts in satoshi's profile and the number of posts found by ninjastic are different, and ninjastic shows that satoshi has 528 posts, while in his profile the number of posts is 575. That is, ninjastic does not take into account all of satoshi's posts. While it can account for deleted posts, you'd have to open each of the 528 posts on ninjastic to see if satoshi had deleted posts.

Why is that, though? Are those posts from the Staff board (or other private boards)?

Wow, I didn't think of that That's right, your service doesn't take into account posts in closed sections. But still, something doesn't add up. I counted 36 satoshi posts in closed sections. Plus 528 posts that show up in ninjastic. That makes only 564 posts out of the 575 posts shown in satoshi's profile. Where are the other 11 posts?

[LoyceV]

If TryNinja got them from me and has 528, how come I only have 526?

[decodx]

Im looking at satoshi's posts, and it just appears as normal. How can you check if he deleted any posts?

You can't do that, because none of the third-party archives or scrapers existed at the time, imho. Even if satoshi deleted some of his posts, it was a long time ago.

[FatFork]

If TryNinja got them from me and has 528, how come I only have 526?

There are a total of 539 posts visible publicly on Satoshi's profile. Your bot likely missed a few, as only 526 are included in your archive. (It's also possible that these posts were made public at some later point in time.) For example, msg28533 and msg28549 are missing from your archive, although they are both on the first page of Satoshi's post history.

[LoyceV]

For example, msg28533 and msg28549 are missing from your archive, although they are both on the first page of Satoshi's post history.

I scraped old posts by topic, not by userID. Those posts are on the second page, and I only have the first page of this topic.
@TryNinja: considering the way I created my old posts archive, it's going to be a lot of work to add those missing posts. I don't think I'll do it any time soon, but I plan to revisit all missing posts someday. When I do, I'll get you a copy. I expect it to take a few months to check them all.

[Xal0lex]

There are a total of 539 posts visible publicly on Satoshi's profile.

Now, that's a different matter. We take 539 posts, add 36 posts from closed sections, and finally we get 575 posts, the number of posts that is displayed in satoshi's profile. Now everything is in place.

[TryNinja]

If TryNinja got them from me and has 528, how come I only have 526?

I can check later, but my first guess is that the 2 extra posts I have were missing from my archive (because they were missing from yours) until someone merited them, then my scraper did its job.

@TryNinja: considering the way I created my old posts archive, it's going to be a lot of work to add those missing posts. I don't think I'll do it any time soon, but I plan to revisit all missing posts someday. When I do, I'll get you a copy. I expect it to take a few months to check them all.

That's fine. I still want to check and scrape what's missing from my archive (i.e posts from the time cloudflore blocked us, server downtimes, etc). I don't know how big the list of missing posts is, but it shouldn't be too big.

[LoyceV]

I don't know how big the list of missing posts is, but it shouldn't be too big.

I expect the list of deleted posts to be very big, and you'll have to check all deleted posts to find the missing ones.