[REQUEST] Forumscraper (json files) import

[sgm9]

github TUVIMEN forumscraper
This script, which you run like (sorry can't post external links, not even bogus ones)
python forumscraper https (://) site com/index.php?action=forum
-t 2 --users --reactions --boards --tags --forums -r 10 --retry-wait
10 -m 15 -k -F err.txt -l log.txt --compression none  --cookie SMFC
ookie992=whatever --cookie PHPSESSID=whatever

produces json files with topics (posts) and boards (their topics).
Would be nice to be able to restore from this. I don't have the user info retrieved separately, needed more rights for that, but usernames are found in the posts, which could be imported and then e-mails manually added, password hashes generated, etc. Admin of the forum is MIA for 2 years now and forum host will expire soon, this is why the odd route.

Let me know if anyone is interested in helping, otherwise I'm going to have a spend a day or two and $10 on claude to do it
Or if there's a well written more generic importer library, in python, rust or some other easy to read language, so i could just plug the json files as source instead of other forum software db format.

[sgm9]

Well, I managed to do it with lots of chatgpt, but it's not an universal solution as the scraper still has bugs, so the jsons contained imperfect data.

[Kindred]

this seems like a way to steal someone else's forum data...   

given that this information is all stored with associated and relational data in the database, I fail to see much use for this...

[Diego Andrés]

Indeed the use is likely for forums where you're not an administrator.
There are many use-cases, some as simple as storing a list of topics in a spreadsheet.

[sgm9]

Can you steal from a dead person with no heirs though ?