Announcing the Guild Wars Guru Archive

Iaerah · February 8, 2017 at 2:30 PM Official Post

Since the Guru archive has been down for half a year now, we decided to do our best and try to provide a (temporary) archive of Guild Wars Guru.
We've been working hard (and by that we mean that we've been using our whips on Kevin) to make this possible.

You can now visit the archive on http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com (we do suggest you use the links below) - HOWEVER, keep this in mind: this isn't a real backup, but rather parts of the website tied together. Huge chunks of the site are still missing, you can't use search and navigation isn't buttery smooth - however, you can find a LOT of information in it and you're able to recover images, posts etc.

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This is the most expensive part of Legacy right now to host, being over 100 GB big (Legacy itself is right now way below 500 MB in size). If you use this often, please consider donating to Guild Wars Legacy.

Questions and inquiries about this archive can be sent to [email protected]

Mr Crow · February 8, 2017 at 2:42 PM Official Post

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh

MaxBorken · February 8, 2017 at 2:59 PM Official Post

I'm using Resurrect on Guildwars Guru Archive!

Welcome back old friend.

Emma · February 8, 2017 at 3:00 PM Official Post

Ooooh, so I was a bit early with my thread haha. Still epic tho

cosyfiep · February 8, 2017 at 5:46 PM Official Post

love seeing my old friend back on her feet --even if they are a bit unsteady and she has a bit of a foggy memory!
GREAT WORK!!!! (and some of the links to screenies still work too, woot!)

MrRams · May 8, 2017 at 2:09 PM

Hi,

Perhaps I can help with your server needs and costs.
I work in a centre that hosts servers, if you want, hit me up for a discussion

Problematique · May 9, 2017 at 1:39 AM

Ah gwg, even during my years of not playing Gw i used to lurk on gwg.

hey · May 15, 2017 at 4:22 PM

I'll post there since Kevin did not answer to my PM :
"Hey

Any guru thread with the symbol "%" in his name makes an error : 400 bad request (because there are % in the link)

any chance to fix that please ?

thanks for the work"

Looney · May 17, 2017 at 5:00 AM

Quote from hey

I'll post there since Kevin did not answer to my PM :
"Hey

Any guru thread with the symbol "%" in his name makes an error : 400 bad request (because there are % in the link)

any chance to fix that please ?

thanks for the work"

I'm not staff or a mod but everything seems to work for me. What browser are you using?
Images like http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/14%20Trader%27…nsc%20staff.JPG work for me
So do threads like http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/14%20Trader%27…exist_.017.html

%20 is a space, %27 is ' etc

Which threads with % in the name are you referring to? I've been looking thru the archive for a while and can't seem to find % as a text character in a thread title, can you point out where to look so I can check if I get the error too?

Edit just found 02942 The minus 60% DP coffee mug.001.html but it works for me as well.
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Why I actually came here

I'm wondering if there is a way to pull the url of where an image was hosted out of a post in the archive? I had a collection on there but the image was hosted elsewhere so it wasn't saved and is just a broken image. I can't remember where I had it hosted and I lost the original image so pulling the link out of the img bbcode would help. Is the only way viewing the html source?

Problematique · May 17, 2017 at 6:33 AM

Quote from Problematique

Ah gwg, even during my years of not playing Gw i used to lurk on gwg.

I actually had two separate accounts as well, because I forgot my original login.

Man, I was so young back then that I used to spam the forums so much and others caught on and the mods knew but I was so oblivious to the concept of spam. Luckily, I was never punished or reprimanded in any way, but it's funny to look back on.

hey · May 17, 2017 at 8:36 AM

Quote from Looney

I'm not staff or a mod but everything seems to work for me. What browser are you using?
Images like http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/14%20Trader%27…nsc%20staff.JPG work for me
So do threads like http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/14%20Trader%27…exist_.017.html

%20 is a space, %27 is ' etc

Which threads with % in the name are you referring to? I've been looking thru the archive for a while and can't seem to find % as a text character in a thread title, can you point out where to look so I can check if I get the error too?

Edit just found 02942 The minus 60% DP coffee mug.001.html but it works for me as well.
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Why I actually came here

I'm wondering if there is a way to pull the url of where an image was hosted out of a post in the archive? I had a collection on there but the image was hosted elsewhere so it wasn't saved and is just a broken image. I can't remember where I had it hosted and I lost the original image so pulling the link out of the img bbcode would help. Is the only way viewing the html source?

talking about those ones (for example) :
- http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/09/09%20Sell/61665588%20Perfect%20Tyrian%20req8%20Healing%20Ankh%20and%20Tyrian%20+15%%20always%20Sephis%20Axe.001.html
- http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/09/09%20Sell/6…eq%208%20Dragon's%20Breath%20Wand!%20+5%5E50!%20HSR%2010%.001.html
- http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/09/09%20Sell/00004%20New-%20Outcast%20Shield%20Str%205-20%%20+30%20and%20many%20more.001.html
- http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/08/08%20Price%20Check/00045%20pc%20q9%20+15%%20Dual%20Vamp%20Amber%20Longbw.001.html
...
go to sell or price check (for example), and open a thread where there is a % and you will see

the ones you gave works for me aswell

Marty Silverblade · May 18, 2017 at 2:15 AM Official Post

Quote from Looney

Why I actually came here

I'm wondering if there is a way to pull the url of where an image was hosted out of a post in the archive? I had a collection on there but the image was hosted elsewhere so it wasn't saved and is just a broken image. I can't remember where I had it hosted and I lost the original image so pulling the link out of the img bbcode would help. Is the only way viewing the html source?

As far as I can tell, no. The image links have been replaced with links to the ones on the Legacy server so there's no longer a reference to their original host locations. It's possible using the Wayback Machine though. Looking at an image in my Warrior guide, the Legacy archive source gives me this:

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view-source:http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/15/Img/20f697n.png

while the wayback machine source gives me this:

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view-source:https://web.archive.org/web/20160601161643im_/http://i62.tinypic.com/20f697n.png

which is what you'd want. If the image host has deleted the image I don't think there's a way to retrieve it though, regardless of whether you've got the url or not. Whether the images were saved or not isn't a matter of whether it was uploaded to Guru or elsewhere, it's a matter of whether that file was still live when Smoke downloaded the all the forum content. If it was elsewhere, like tinypic in the example above, and you uploaded anonymously (I think) then they'll be deleted after a certain amount of time.

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As for the percentage sign issue, if you put '25' (without the quotes) after the relevant character (which can be hard to determine given spaces translate to "%20") it'll load. So for example

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http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/09/09%20Sell/61665588%20Perfect%20Tyrian%20req8%20Healing%20Ankh%20and%20Tyrian%20+15%%20always%20Sephis%20Axe.001.html

won't load, but

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http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/09/09%20Sell/61665588%20Perfect%20Tyrian%20req8%20Healing%20Ankh%20and%20Tyrian%20+15%25%20always%20Sephis%20Axe.001.html

works. That's certainly not practical and I don't know how difficult it'd be to actually fix the issue, but if you really really want access to a broken thread, that's how to do it. Not sure why some threads aren't breaking though. That coffee mug thread has the invalid url characters automatically translated but it's only happening for that thread...

Looney · May 18, 2017 at 3:43 AM

Either I'm doing it wrong or the wayback machine doesn't have an archive of the relevant page of the beloved collections thread. TBH finding the old image would be helpful, but it's more just me being lazy. I still have all the items that were in the image plus a few I wanted to add to that image. It probably is gone since it was anon on imgur or tinypic. I guess I'll just have to see if I backed up my screenshots somewhere or take a bunch of new ones and start over on a new version.

Iaerah · May 19, 2017 at 11:10 PM Official Post

Right now the Archive is running in a special Docker container, so fixing those special characters would be a ton of work and unlikely to be done.

The solution of Marty does however work - thanks Marty!

NeoAnderson · May 22, 2017 at 12:11 AM

Can't believe this blast from the past is here - well done to all those involved for porting it - and big thanks to Legacy for hosting! I'll be sure to donate

Looney · June 29, 2017 at 6:06 AM

I was going through the chestrunners thread and I noticed the archive contains many doubles of the same page. Most pages there is 2 copies of. If you look at the size column it's pretty obvious. I know it would be a task but it may be possible to curate it a bit and remove the doubles to save some space. Just looking here it's quite a few doubles. http://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/15/15%20The%20…e/11%20Farming/

Is there a reason for the doubles I'm missing? If the whole archive is similar it could really add up.

MaxBorken · June 29, 2017 at 7:57 AM Official Post

I believe that's on the list. Kev and I were talking about that, and it's a large job, and for the moment there are other things to deal with first.

Iaerah · July 4, 2017 at 9:21 PM Official Post

Yes, ideally I would like to apply deduplication on the entire archive, so that any file that occurs multiple times is only stored once and replaced with symbolic links.
That would however require a technical overhaul - it is on the to do list.

cosyfiep · October 12, 2017 at 4:52 PM Official Post

**fixed***

am getting errs when trying to access it--any of it, now.

TDR2000 · October 13, 2017 at 2:11 PM

Yeah, I noticed it a week ago. It seems that the Archive is not working anymore.

Iaerah · October 13, 2017 at 10:09 PM Official Post

It's currently down because I have some issues with the server it's on
Been quite busy so I really didn't have any time to fix it yet.

I'll fix it as soon as I can

cosyfiep · October 13, 2017 at 10:12 PM Official Post

good to hear....the mobs are getting restless on having guru down, so we want to keep them happy. (or my banhammer may get to be used a wee bit differently).

Age · December 13, 2017 at 9:38 PM

I guess with the shut down of the Guru 2 this where you all have moved to?It is nice to see old faces.

Marty Silverblade · December 13, 2017 at 9:58 PM Official Post

This is where we moved to after the shut down of Guru. Nobody gave a damn about Guru2. This site has been running for over a year now.

Rhododendron · February 6, 2018 at 6:10 PM

i guess the archive is still down...

MaxBorken · February 6, 2018 at 7:10 PM Official Post

Works fine for me

Marty Silverblade · February 6, 2018 at 10:03 PM Official Post

It looks like some of the forums (specifically, Gladiator's Arena, Explorer's League, Guild Recruitment, PUG's and Grouping, Off Topic, Nolani Academy of Arts, Screenshots, and Site Feedback) aren't linked properly - presumably Kevin rearranged some things but didn't update the links for whatever reason. I also found some pages where the CSS is broken but not in a way that prevents usability. Not sure why that's happening.

Iaerah · February 7, 2018 at 5:16 PM Official Post

I'll look into it as soon as I can

Age · February 13, 2018 at 11:25 PM

Thanks for letting us know as there are some threads that I look through from time to time.

Forty Second Rogue · February 15, 2021 at 1:23 AM

Sorry to necro this thread.

Can anyone point me to what section farming would be in?

I started going through and realized it may take forever.

I had a guildie who farmed the desert and had some good builds for them with his warrior, Etterwyn Warrior.

Pretty sure he had a big presence on GWGuru back in the days.

Marty Silverblade · February 15, 2021 at 2:02 AM Official Post

Farming was a subforum of The Campfire: https://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/15/15%20The%20…00%20index.html

Forty Second Rogue · February 15, 2021 at 2:05 AM

Quote from Marty Silverblade

Farming was a subforum of The Campfire: https://archive.guildwarslegacy.com/15/15%20The%20…00%20index.html

Thank You!

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