Cyoc down

[godleydemon]

So as I'm sure alot of people have noticed, CYOC has gone down now for several days in a row. Looks like there database is down or something. Ironically, I've been afraid of sites disappearing lately and was in the process of making my own kind of backup database of the chapters. I've got about 3500+ entries. I don't scan every day and I respect there wait rules which is 10 seconds, so I don't end up ddosing there site lol

I wonder if anyone knows what in the world is going on? Also, don't suppose anyone has there own backup database of cyoc? and if people are curious I'm more than happy to share my own spaghetti code in python on how I did it

[lmorgado]

It's strange on my end too. I just finished and overly long and creative chapter and the moment to submitted, the site went down, and this was on a Tuesday or Wednesday when it seemed okay at first. I was lucky to copy and paste the story on Notes before hand, otherwise I would've lost so much writing. Hopefully, they get it back up, but with it taking this long, I fear we might see the end of CYOC as a whole, if not now, than soon.

[godleydemon]

getting a bit scary now, I'm starting to wonder if CYOC is gone for good. Which would be super unlucky since I was just in the middle of trying to backup all of the posts might poke around tonight and try and track down someone who might know whats going on. Unless anyone heres got a clue.

[godleydemon]

so, with cyoc being down now for about a week. I've decided to try and figure out a work around/pull my hair out. I've found the wayback machine seems to have archived a bunch of chapters. I mean ALOT of chapters. Unfortunately, it's still not everything. Thankfully wayback has an api called "wayback cdx server" that I can interface with to search for the latest date of a url with some wild cards. It's a lot more clunky now, and wayback machine has some really odd rate limiting going on. But it IS grabbing chapters once again. Also unfortunately, the date that I was saving in the database for the chapter is going to be wildly off now XD lol So is the ID I was saving, I can probably fix some of this but I don't think it'll be all that useful now with the CYOC site being down for the foreseable future.

It's going to take me a VERY long time to grab all of this data and sort through some of it. I'm making a seperate python script to give me a gui to easily search it. Maybe I'll release it all once I get it done with, so we at least have something we can have fun sifting around inside of. Heck, I know some people would love to use it for AI driven projects

What I'm saving is the id, url, title, branch, date and chapter contents. I am not saving the "what to do next" chapter select. I might be able to do this by creating a new table in the db or something. Maybe something for a future project, if there is enough demand for it. The original project was really only supposed to be for myself, so I had something easy to search through using synonyms of keywords. Then if I was interested in the chapter, I could click a button to go to that chapter and add a new option if I wanted to. It was never designed to try and duplicate the functionality of the site.

If you have any suggestions or ideas on what should be included in the project I'm somehow starting. Please don't hesitate to throw it out there. More than 80% of this code is spaghetti and strung together, working on hopes, dreams and chewing gum. Also, I know for a fact someone on this forum has a database of cyoc chapters. If anyone knows where it's at on the forums (because I can't freaking find the damn thing) let me know.


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