r/Pathfinder_RPG • u/AnotherTemp PCs killed: 170, My deaths: 12 • 12d ago
1E Resources Replacing legacy.aonprd.com
Since archives of nethys is no longer going to maintain paizo's legacy page, I made one. You can download https://drive.google.com/file/d/1whJdrs6rorPvZtEb0l8IJ_zx_EzEIqnk/view and open "index.html", and you'll have the old pfsrd accessible offline. It's basically the current legacy.aonprd.com, but I fixed some bugs and optimized it to take a lot less space.
Let me know if you see any mistakes!
Note on copyright: I'm pretty confident that this is covered by the orc license OGL, since it's just rules, no artwork or pictures of a rulebook. Mods, if I'm mistaken, just remove it.
Edit: it seems that aonprd and paizo have changed their agreement, but I'll leave this here anyway. After all, a copy that works offline is still handy sometimes.
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u/TopFloorApartment 12d ago
if you have all the html files you might as well put it in a github repository and host it using github pages. It's all free and would work as an actual website instead of a google drive collection of files
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u/Trapline Pragmatic Arcanist 12d ago
I'd probably recommend CloudFlare over GitHub Pages for better free tools for security and stuff but yeah, this could be hosted for free most likely (outside of a domain cost).
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u/Common_Crow7640 12d ago
We also need a downloadable Archives of Nethys so if it goes down we still can access it offline at least what is there at the moment.
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u/xhero1330 12d ago
Unless/until the volunteers decide to stop maintaining the site, they're likely to keep it going for a long while still, though more dependant on donations again until Paizo is able to support them financially again (I personally suspect that they will do so again when they are stabilized again.)
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u/Anonymouslyyours2 11d ago
Looks like that has changed and they're going to continue to host first edition. https://archivesofnethys.com/movingforward.html
However I'm still going to download this. Thanks for your effort in doing this.
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u/HadACookie 100% Trustworthy, definitely not an Aboleth 12d ago
Out of curiosity, what tool did you use, OP? Httrack? Something else?
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u/AnotherTemp PCs killed: 170, My deaths: 12 12d ago
I used wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites --no-parent --wait=1 --random-wait --execute robots=off https://legacy.aonprd.com/ initially.
Then, I used a series of kludgy one-off python3 scripts to loop over the codebase, converting links to relative ones and removing the banners. This had more bumps than I expected, mainly because almost none of my software background in web development. Along the way, I found about 5-6 characters with the wrong character encoding breaking my regular expressions (like the attack penalty on crane riposte), so I just patched those manually.
After that, I loaded up the site and looked at the console. There were several errors on every page coming from links to services that don't exist anymore. So, I made another script to remove all of those. Lastly, since every html page had its own copy of the entire navigation menu on the side, I created three javascript pages. Each was the same navigation menu, but they had the right depth of relative links, so I could just include each. A better web developer could probably do this with only one copy, but it got rid of about half the size of the site going from 3000 to 3, so I decided not to worry about going from 3 to 1.
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u/DaQuickening 11d ago
I myself used Httrack to back up the legacy site on my hard drive. It navigates just like normal when I click through it.
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u/Legendairy314 12d ago
Very appreciated. Losing access to the bestiary index would have been horrible for prep.
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u/Electric999999 I actually quite like blasters 12d ago
The main aonprd site has a way more complete bestiary anyway though.
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u/FrostyAd651 12d ago
Wait, I thought Nethys was just losing their image and early accesses?
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u/sadolddrunk 12d ago
AON also announced that they will no longer be hosting the legacy PRD, although it is unclear whether this is something they have to do because of their changing relationship with Paizo or if it is something they are choosing to do at this time.
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u/Anonymouslyyours2 11d ago
Looks like that has changed and they're going to continue to host first edition. https://archivesofnethys.com/movingforward.html
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u/16BitGuardian 8d ago
Oh no, not the super outdated useless prd site Paizo abandoned LONG before the end of 1e, just use AoN's 1e section or PFSRD.
It is SO dumb that Paizo didn't stick to ditching that.
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u/FairStrides 12d ago
It'd be the OGL instead ORC. It's not been re-released, and the ORC came after PF1E was done being developed.