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How to construct a Google Groups non-redundant URL for reference purposes
Here is how I just now figured out how to construct a non-redundant Google
Groups URL to a Usenet post from years ago. If you have a better method, please share, as I post this merely to share to help others use Usenet as a reference. I just did this today for the alt-home-repair newsgroup, so all I'm doing is documenting the steps for others to be able to leverage in the future. 1. I needed to look up an old URL on how to wind garage door torsion springs so that I could cut and paste a short Google URL as a reference. 2. I knew the original thread was posted to alt.home.repair by me on Usenet years ago, so I searched using this easily remembered URL. http://tinyurl.com/alt-home-repair 3. That easily remembered URL, of course, takes you to the canonical GG search URL which is the one to use (but it's harder to remember): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.home.repair 4. My search was "Danny garage torsion" which came up with four thread titles: a. Lessons learned installing a torsion spring in a typical residential garage b. Update to the "lessons learned" garage door torsion spring DIY thread (new lessons learned) c. Garage door torsion spring relocation project (Status = Not going well) d. Garage door torsion spring broken ... and ... I have no questions! 5. The initial URLs are messy because they include redundant terms: a. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...lt.home.repair b. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...lt.home.repair c. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...lt.home.repair d. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!ms...lt.home.repair 6. Notice the unique ultimate characters: a. LASTID=BRHYK3X71BAJ b. LASTID=8Ff3HsrmASEJ c. LASTID=Hk0mfwDsQooJ d. LASTID=I0TP541gGk4J 7. Now you need a normal short URL, where a "normal" URL can be gotten simply by looking up the *latest* page and choosing any URL found on that latest page as of the current date. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.home.repair The first URL (at the moment) uses this non-redundant syntax: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...ir/i9nfxKFjZE0 8. You'd think you can just cut the *last* argument out, to reconstruct the desired non-redundant Google URLs (but you can't). So these won't work: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.home.repair/cut this out https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.home.repair/insert LASTID a. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...r/BRHYK3X71BAJ b. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...r/8Ff3HsrmASEJ c. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...r/Hk0mfwDsQooJ d. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...r/I0TP541gGk4J But that doesn't work. 9. What you can do though, is cut TWO ID sections out: a. LAST2IDs=738YR8CPsLI/BRHYK3X71BAJ b. LAST2IDs=AGrGZc4i-RA/8Ff3HsrmASEJ c. LAST2IDs=ifuMBLOoGXY/Hk0mfwDsQooJ d. LAST2IDs=s0zBJNaT89Q/I0TP541gGk4J 10. Using those two sections, you reconstruct a Google URL: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...t.home.repair/ + LAST2IDs a. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...I/BRHYK3X71BAJ b. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...A/8Ff3HsrmASEJ c. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...Y/Hk0mfwDsQooJ d. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...Q/I0TP541gGk4J 11. When you go to those four URLs, you get *new* Google URLs for each: a. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...ir/738YR8CPsLI b. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...ir/AGrGZc4i-RA c. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...ir/ifuMBLOoGXY d. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...ir/s0zBJNaT89Q 12. So, one way to reconstruct a non-redundant Google Groups URL is to put these three syntactical items together: A. The base URL (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/) B. The newsgroup (alt.home.repair) C. The penultimate ID https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ + alt.home.repair/ + PENULTIMATEID |
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