[23:35] <arraybolt3> Is there an officially approved way to mass-download a bunch of IRC logs over multiple days? I have a script that works (loops over days, months, and years, downloading the IRC logs for the channel in question as it goes), but it makes HTTP requests one after another in rapid succession, and I'm worried that my IP will get banned trying to do that.
[23:36] <arraybolt3> (I'm trying to pull all the logs for #ubuntu over 2022 and 2023 in order to study them.)
[23:51] <el> you should be able to just wget's -m
[23:51] <el> just use*
[23:52] <el> i've done it before and not got banned so i'll be surprised if you do
[23:52] <arraybolt3> oh grief, that's quite a bit more intensive than what I was trying :P
[23:52] <arraybolt3> then it'll probably be fine
[23:54] <el> but to answer your actual question, i don't know if there's an "official" way at all
[23:54] <el> that implies more organization and forethought than that part of the canonical infra has ever had.
[23:54] <arraybolt3> lol, makes sense
[23:54] <el> (it's not mission critical by any sense)