1. Hardware/Software 2. I started out with absolutely no experience (I didnt know what a fucking YTMPV was thats how basic I started out) 3. Nature of the beast 4. Have to be logged in 5. Oh and feel free to chime in >4chan archives desuarchive <- desustorage (bibanon) yuki.la (enormous rip) arch.b4k.co archived.moe <- archive.moe <- foolz wakamirasen (own full res images) https://4archive.org/board/mlp/ (full res hosted on imgur) https://4chanarchives.com/board/mlp/ (full res hosted on imgur) arch.314chan.net (old and dead, archives transferred to mlpg.co) no-ip (dead, not much available in Wayback) new MLPG archive https://fg.b4k.co/mlpg/archive old mlpg archive https://mlpg.co/hyperindex/ (more years at bottom) before even that https://hyperindex.mlpg.co/ iwtcits/ponyarchive (http://www.mediafire.com/?84r32fbc4gyk313) heinessen (dead, see second desu link below for downloads) https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36727476/#36764936 https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36727476/#36764947 https://plus4chan.org/b/co/ https://plus4chan.org/b/coc/ https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36208815/#36209427 >Other 4chan stuff in general https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/4chan look in history for more links http://vyrd.bibanon.org/ar/ https://files.catbox.moe/pwkwo6.xlsx https://archive.4plebs.org/_/articles/credits/ https://boards.4chan.org/t/thread/1033260 (yuki.la html torrent, https://archive.is/TOQ4i ) https://4chansociety.neocities.org/ https://wiki.bibanon.org/4chan/History >Other chans FiMchan (/co/) Ponychan (more /b/ than anything) MLPchan (split from Ponychan) Lunachan (split) other (Stevenchan) https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/unitedchans/images/f/f6/Ponychan%27s_Offshoots.png/revision/latest?cb=20141028072855 (I'll be entirely honest, I'm not sure why this link doesn't work right the first time, but all you gotta do is refresh the page after opening) Gyropedia United Chans wiki https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yonxyTSCqc4dqeb1ImMLvCCp8hYcWeDS964kA0DHehs/edit >Videos The Pony Archive (if you wanna mass download, use wget) starlightglimmer2020 (moved, will be public again sometime in the future) https://archive.ph/gbH1L https://archive.ph/DJIpJ Pony.Tube hell yeah Unlistedvideos.com is godly for youtube, before:YYYY-MM-DD, after:YYYY-MM-DD, filter on playlists or users or something. see https://moz.com/learn/seo/search-operators in ">Go over real uick) PonyArchive992 Winter Rose search "(pony musician here) archive" google will often give better/more accurate results than youtube itself (like playlists, channels, video, etc) >Searching on The Pony Archive (TPA) THE HARD WAY (will get you the best results): >https://www.theponyarchive.com/archive/youtube/ If it's a more popular channel or one that has mostly pony videos, it may be stored in here ex. WoodenToaster or FiMFlamPhilosophy. Ctrl+F their name or channel ID and you should be able to find it. >https://www.theponyarchive.com/archive/quickchive/ Warning: May freeze/crash your browser (for context, it takes a while but loads on a beefy desktop with Firefox, but may not on slower laptops or computers). Do a Ctrl+F on the video ID or replace the spaces with _'s when searching video titles. I've found that the page loads fully on Firefox but have had problems with Opera (dunno about Chrome). >https://www.theponyarchive.com/archive/quickchive/archive.txt Just text of video IDs so much easier to load, but some IDs are missing (for some reason). THE EASY WAY (may miss newer archived stuff): >http://search.celestianism.rocks Use it just like a plain old searchbar, grabs archive/youtube/ and archive/quickchive/. It's a bit outdated so newer stuff may not be in there, but it should grab mostly everything from the archive/youtube/ area. Plus filtering on dates is godly. >https://hobune.stream/tpa-h/channels/ >https://hobune.stream/channels/ (not necessarily all pony) Search by channel combined with easy viewing experience (.mkv may need downloading). I think the "Other Videos" section is the archive/quickchive/ area though, and good luck getting that to load. >https://hobune.stream/tpa-h/videos/[VIDEO ID] nice easy way to determine if something is archived or not. also not be quite up to date >Fanfiction/Greens Fimfetch.net Fimfarchive https://www.fimfiction.net/user/116950/ https://github.com/JockeTF/fimfarchive to start/make you own PonyFictionArchive (and explicit sister site) which will have earlier stuff http://ponyfictionvault.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html EQD archive (http://web.archive.org/web/20210323001507/https://www.nallar.me/fics/ should have all of the EQD archive archived, supposedly backed up by Rome) https://ponepaste.org/ https://poneb.in/ https://mulpwiki.batpony.party/index.php/Main_Page (should be included in Ponebin, but offers more search functionality) >Music The Pony Music Archive (rip) https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37007547/ https://u.smutty.horse/maxqnsnthdh.7z Pony.FM BronyTunes use https://bronytunes.com/#!/library to get a nicer view of artists ProjectVinyl.net MLP Music Archive (https://ponyvillelive.com/mlpma/) https://rainwatertornado.cloud/collections/pony-music-archive/ https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37007547/#37019453 https://bronymusiciandirectory.blogspot.com/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B38kVwl13cntYnZHSks1TFJ4WEE/view (Top 100 Brony Songs 2011) https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B38kVwl13cntRTkxNTMxc05ndjg/edit (Top 100 Brony Songs 2012) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B38kVwl13cntX1RsZHhIS05zS1U/edit (Top 100 Brony Songs 2013) Ponies@Dawn, Equinity, Cider Party, Drumscape Library, A State of Sugar, VibePoniez, Pony Family, Equestrian Terror Corps, Pinkamena Party, The Rest of Our Lives, SGaP General Archival Project, MyLittleRemix HAS A NEW ALBUM https://mylittleremix.bandcamp.com/album/brony-vs-brony-remix-war-x-10th-anniversary-invitational EQD music posts, Horse Music Herald >Games https://ponepaste.org/610 https://mega.nz/folder/TPhUhZ7L#r7sy1aQaU9noc_lOPoKb0A http://www.equestriagaming.net/ https://gitlab.com/RikkyTikkyTavy/mlp-fan-games https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G90jdHU9pPjNJAarbpeZ98jCvL_KOt88u-6e7uTznv4 >News Sites EquestriaDaily DerpyHooves The Daily Oat http://www.mylittleponynews.com/ Rainbow Dash Network (not technically a news site but treasure troves of stuff) forums of pony stuff always has a shitton of links >Other ROME https://pyxia-code.github.io/Pony-Rewatch/ https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36440680/#36440908 gives you a “ipfs resolve -r /ipns/k51qzi5uqu5dl2jcnf4uujanzt7rjuws58fo367a4oxv2oqcu5i5anaabh30y1/browser/: could not resolve name” error right now unfortunately https://a0346f102085fe9f.github.io/IAS/ https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony_Friendship_is_Magic_Wiki https://mlpfanart.fandom.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony_Fan_Wiki I fucking love this place many other wikis can hold info >Early stuff https://www.cartoonbrew.com/bad-ideas/ruby-spears-and-sid-and-marty-krofft-team-up-22390.html countdown to g4 https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/33518760 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yonxyTSCqc4dqeb1ImMLvCCp8hYcWeDS964kA0DHehs/edit https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/243z8d/eli5_how_did_the_whole_brony_community_come_to_be/ https://www.reddit.com/r/mylittlepony/comments/15i1xm/iama_the_zam_the_guy_who_posted_the_original_mlp/ https://meme.fandom.com/wiki/Brony pensivepine/pensivepony / MASTERLINKX / others (https://rabbithutchiscalling.blogspot.com/search/label/my%20little%20pony?updated-max=2010-11-02T22:22:00-04:00&max-results=20&start=61&by-date=false) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MCNJQ2qvDXiEhsle7quaujejLhjF1y5MmMIyKBrZznc/edit?usp=sharing My Little Remix, Toastbeards http://web.archive.org/web/20200216182811/http://toastbeard.bronyradio.com/ Eurobeat Brony, kyrospawn music playlist iamnotacleverpony https://bronymusiciandirectory.blogspot.com/ patient zero and “brony” isnt quite what you think it is first leak (http://web.archive.org/web/20101128111125/http://mlparena.com/Forums/viewtopic/t=251807.html#3164776) princess molestia origins (https://hyperindex.mlpg.co/co21428659.html#21433406) first porn (https://boards.4channel.org/mlp/thread/37086324#p37087051, http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/536328) 10 Years threads >Go over real quick Internet Archive/Wayback Machine / archive.today Inspect Element (Published) Removeddit Tumblr/Tumbex Google/Bing Cache reverse image search? Using the one on the boorus, desuarchive and everything here https://spoon.wiki/ReverseImageSearch youtube-dl, do not change metadata about https://moz.com/learn/seo/search-operators urldecoder use Google and Duckduckgo AND Bing to your advantage as the latter two have older archives and will have both results and cache that google WONT have, and that is a blessing >Software youtube-dl Livestreamer - Streamlink Propreitary PHP Derpi downloader TumblrRipper Curl Charles Proxy / Fiddler Tcpdump wget grab-site https://github.com/egbertbouman/youtube-comment-downloader https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/annotations-restored-for/daabpdmgkghdbfljmeahnplkcldbeefg >stuff to especially look out for (things that you could start your own project on) (PLEASE DON’T WORRY IF ITS "NOT NEW" OR SOMETHING, collaborating will figure that stuff out) /mlp/ and other board projects live/chat reactions to episodes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-7tB_Ia1PA ) videos with low view counts from 2014-2018, especially music unlisted videos ( can look here https://unlistedvideos.com/ ) popular videos from one-off channels foreign language stuff, and that includes sites like stuff on niconico video, bilibili, channels on youtube, forums, meetups, cons, anything really podcasts instrumentals/stems versions of songs that are very often linked in descriptions of youtube videos for remixes because holy fuck its everywhere (https://mega.nz/folder/EJ1xmJCI#iKxTmMLn8T8m_59qxtZHnA is a small example of what can be found) equestria girls stuff (because I dont go out of my way to look for that stuff lol sorry to barbieposters) TEMPO!!! 10 new threads and STILL no archive? gotta be made yo Dropbox anything (Dropbox is specifically excluded from wayback machine and the LINKS ALWAYS DIE. THEYRE ALWAYS FUCKING DEAD REEE) websites, wikis you come across >what do you think of things that we could do better? if you find something, please dont alert someone by doing something they could get a notif of, please download it first because your notif might remind them that they were gonna delete that KEEP A LOG of how you found something and the links themselves, please dont be stupid like me, you will thank yourself so much later BE CURIOUS (there is a benefit to do things by hand) keep your eyes peeled on chan(s), subreddits, servers, etc, there are many places people will post things ALWAYS DOWNLOAD WHAT YOU THINK IS IMPORTANT/HOLD DEAR and then make backups, with at least one completely off-system >stuff I found could talk about off the top of my head old AnimatedJames channel Alex S. original videos other things if I can remember them how unlisted song(z) was found iamnotacleverpony DuoCartoonist Mega Le Soldat songs 3D Pony PMV found Dusk’s Dawn >Other shit to maybe mention https://fillydelphia.com/ https://bronyhub.com/ (they have a lot of links and stuff and are really cool) https://mlpfanart.fandom.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony_Fan_Wiki https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/My_Little_Pony_Friendship_is_Magic_Wiki