Most artist are to poor and/or dumb to make a copyright claim on their work. Also most people on patreon are making fanart, which is technically illegal to make profit from, so no court would rule in their favor in the first place. The only people that are able to dmca people consistently are camwhores and cosplayers since their body falls under their "IP" If I'm not mistaken, but only a few of them actively do so.Isn't it a website pirating Patreon users in the open? I have always been surprised at how it existed in [otherwise pirate-phobic] America. Usually, piracy is only allowed in [based] Russia and China. What gives?
By scraped for links, do you mean that it has the creator pages and the posts openable to read? Because that would at least be quite helpful for making sure that at least stuff like short stories and reaction channel links aren't lost, even if the attachments are.It's just the database, and a fairly well updated one too. They're not as useful without the actual files/data but the html files can still be scraped for links. If he actually has the data then he just saved the internet. Whether he's the YP admin or not is debatable, but that doesn't matter.
edit: and yes the files are clean, the database has at least 24k patreon creators in it
So with this I was able to grab links from two reactions channels for myself (Semblance of Sanity, Brandon Likes Movies). Those were the main reason I was using yiff.party anyway. Very nice, I appreciate it.Here are the said HTML/JSON files
Nah i've been using kemono for almost a year now, its always been like that but not as bad. Also I think people were importing stuff like crazy so maybe that also caused a problem.Ahhh, so it's not just me.
Could it be that the servers are just overwhelmed by yiff.party people using it now too? I can access the first few people when I search for no artist name and the rest show 502.
You can see the creator ID from the creators.json file where there are all the info associated to the each creator, and ofc the name too. Then you can go to that creator json file page that has the same ID and grab all the links you want (there are all the posts info in that file) and the overall backup is basically almost up to the date to the very moment yiff gone down 1 week ago, it just miss 1-2 days of imports. Unfortunately it can't help with data uploaded to patreon (yiff) directly but we can get all the external links downloads and that's already great. (the creators I followed actually only use those and they're a lot)So with this I was able to grab links from two reactions channels for myself (Semblance of Sanity, Brandon Likes Movies). Those were the main reason I was using yiff.party anyway. Very nice, I appreciate it.
Obviously this is just old stuff now, but it's still useful. It's like what Fate's End said above, you can open these html files to grab links to google drives and shit like that. You need to know what yiff.party ID the patreon user had though. Like for example, I google search "yiff.party semblance of sanity", and one of the top links will be something like yiff.party/4209723. The 4209723 is what you want.