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Yaplog is Closing
Popular Japanese blog platform yaplog will be shutting down at the end of January 2020. This is notable for lolita, because Japanese brands like Angelic Pretty have been posting information about their items to shop yaplog blogs for over a decade. These blogs often can be used to find information about older items, and are one of the sources used ( Read more... )
Regarding your spreadsheet, I dont see listed in Brand/Store Blogs: http://yaplog.jp/alice-pirates/
In Personal blogs, theres more personal lolita blogs I know of. You listed some, some are already gone,
one of them was deleted right while I was saving the for images :( Heres others I know of which are still there:
alicenyann, alumi-plant, aoharuchan, et0ile, fuwafuwatime02, fwafwausagi, heaven02, choco_ribbon,
chocochoco-cat, i-am-a-slave, infiniteneeya, itigodokuro, kmbuuuu, lolitte, lovelogic, maki-and-asuka,
mochidukimiuna, nyu_n, pink--bunny, realisticsweet, shiroyukihime, takulu, vinpire
Theres also pictures of secondhand shop usagiyohinten, if that counts too.
I wrote some python script to scrape the blogs of images (big version from /image/, not the smaller ones in blog posts)
and Im trying to grab stuff as quickly as I can. If you want them or cooperate together, let me know here in the post :]
I wish you good luck and quick internet access so you can grab all your heart wants!
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It looks like http://yaplog.jp/alice-pirates/ is actually someone's personal blog, not a shop blog (and like this is a common point of confusion because they have a pinned post about it)
https://yaplog.jp/alice-pirates/archive/222#BlogEntryExtend
I have been focusing more on the brand blogs than the personal ones, but I could do the personal ones if people have an interest?
I did: https://yaplog.jp/usagiyohinten/, I don't know if they have any others?
I started out using HtTrack which is a windows program, to download the blogs and for those, I think I have the larger images? It's really comprehensive and it captured pretty much everything, but it also maintained the file structure, so it's a maze of folders.
For those ones I have the pages that look like this
https://yaplog.jp/baby_kumamoto/image/1361/4297
And the images on that page directly.
Those are the big ones, right? Or is there an alternate place to get those?
But then it stopped working and I was too sick to figure out who was blocking it and how.
So for the ones in my sheet where the method is PHP, the script I wrote doesn't get the bigger image, just the HTML and the photos in the blog post. I could go back and add that in, I just... I don't know, for some reason I didn't think of it at the time. To be fair, I literally put the script together when I was at home sick with the flu, so.... it's... uh... not the best scripting I've ever done, to put it lightly. XD
I would be interested in getting the larger images from you for those ones, or interested in a copy of your script if you are open to sharing it?
As for the data I've collected, I'm zipping up the ones that are done and working on getting them uploaded. I'll post a link for downloads once I've gotten it together. :3
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