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Hive is absolutely filled with tinypic* images (dead, ofc). Some have been archived on the Wayback Machine. Like this one from this post.
*WHHHYYYYYYYY
There were also a couple tinypic archive projects in the past, the full collections of which are described here. Now, from what I've read, it sounds like everything in those archives is in-fact accessible via original URLs on the Wayback Machine - meaning, whatever is reachable via normal Wayback Machine search is probably all there is.
The only idea I really have off the top of my head for restoring Hive images from the Internet Archive is to basically do what the browser extension that I describe in the next section does - basically use a regex on the Hive's tinypic URLs to directly get archived images, and either just redirect the URLs to the Wayback Machine, or permanently replace the images in the forums (though, you'll definitely want to back up everything beforehand either way
).
While some images have been archived, many have not (example in this top post), so if you keep track of how many/what percent you succeed in replacing if you attempt this, I'd be curious what the number is, to see how much attempting this pays off.
Something that worked for me
I managed to use this browser extension called Redirector with the below Javascript regex rule to pull tinypic images posted on the Hive from the Wayback Machine:
Note the redirect link format (which I guess is how to directly retrieve images from the Internet Archive):
So now the page I linked at the top of this post looks like this to me just from using that browser extension:
More basic info about tinyurl format
Hive tinypic URLs seem to generally look like:
where the actual original tinypic URL that you want to extract from that is:
which is taken from this part:
The format for a direct image link is something like:
E.g., http://i62.tinypic.com/nnpdts.png
Note that the number after the "i" at the beginning is not the same for all images, but generally seems to be 2 numbers. I don't know if the image name is always 6 characters, but it seems like it might be.
Note also that, for some reason, searching for tinypic URLs from the below-pictured interface generally doesn't work:
so you have to search from either the direct link format I gave in the 2nd section, or via the Wayback Machine Extension, or from the top page pictured below (in the box where you see I've pasted the URL, not in the search bar in the grey/black section at the top):
*WHHHYYYYYYYY
There were also a couple tinypic archive projects in the past, the full collections of which are described here. Now, from what I've read, it sounds like everything in those archives is in-fact accessible via original URLs on the Wayback Machine - meaning, whatever is reachable via normal Wayback Machine search is probably all there is.
The only idea I really have off the top of my head for restoring Hive images from the Internet Archive is to basically do what the browser extension that I describe in the next section does - basically use a regex on the Hive's tinypic URLs to directly get archived images, and either just redirect the URLs to the Wayback Machine, or permanently replace the images in the forums (though, you'll definitely want to back up everything beforehand either way
).While some images have been archived, many have not (example in this top post), so if you keep track of how many/what percent you succeed in replacing if you attempt this, I'd be curious what the number is, to see how much attempting this pays off.
Something that worked for me
I managed to use this browser extension called Redirector with the below Javascript regex rule to pull tinypic images posted on the Hive from the Wayback Machine:
.*(http%3A%2F%2Fi[0-9][0-9]\.tinypic\.com%2F[^&#?]*?\.(?:png|jpe?g|gif|webp))
Note the redirect link format (which I guess is how to directly retrieve images from the Internet Archive):
https://web.archive.org/web/1im_/So now the page I linked at the top of this post looks like this to me just from using that browser extension:
More basic info about tinyurl format
Hive tinypic URLs seem to generally look like:
https://www.hiveworkshop.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi49.tinypic.com%2Fsw3g3s.png&hash=ebb86ccddb1dc09f4c64105af7a626aawhere the actual original tinypic URL that you want to extract from that is:
http://i49.tinypic.com/sw3g3s.pngwhich is taken from this part:
http%3A%2F%2Fi49.tinypic.com%2Fsw3g3s.pngThe format for a direct image link is something like:
http://iXX.tinypic.com/ABCDEF.extE.g., http://i62.tinypic.com/nnpdts.png
Note that the number after the "i" at the beginning is not the same for all images, but generally seems to be 2 numbers. I don't know if the image name is always 6 characters, but it seems like it might be.
Note also that, for some reason, searching for tinypic URLs from the below-pictured interface generally doesn't work:
so you have to search from either the direct link format I gave in the 2nd section, or via the Wayback Machine Extension, or from the top page pictured below (in the box where you see I've pasted the URL, not in the search bar in the grey/black section at the top):
