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Collect video URLs and GPS data for Parler videos.

Parler video GPS data

My goal is to help people researching the spread of far-right movements, and trying to identify people tresspassing at the Capitol on January 6th. Do not contact me about doxxing someone, or leave comments attempting to doxx someone, just because they uploaded a video.

Download the collected CSV data here.

Using metadata collected by https://twitter.com/donk_enby

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How to view a video on Parler

Let's say you have a video ID, like wfy02V209EwU taken from this map

The link for the video kiBnNejo0JW0 is at https://video.parler.com/ki/Bn/kiBnNejo0JW0. Notice that the link is: https://video.parler.com/ followed by the first two characters of the video ID, then /, then the next two characters, another /, and the video ID.

But if you click on this, you will get an error.

This is because the Parler video servers are still running (as of January 12) but the Domain Name System (DNS) is not running.

That means that video.parler.com does not get mapped to the video server address correctly.

To fix this, you need to manually patch your system's DNS records. Then you can click on the link.

Mac

  1. Open the Terminal app.
  2. Type sudo nano /etc/hosts
  3. Type your password.
  4. Press the down arrow key until you are past the lines starting with #.
  5. Paste this line: 8.240.242.124 video.parler.com
  6. Type Ctrl+O to save.
  7. Type Ctrl+X to exit.

Windows

Follow these instructions and add the line 8.240.242.124 video.parler.com to your hosts file.

Errors

Some of the videos have been taken down. These will show a message saying "AllAccessDisabled".

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freedom-fighter2121 commented Mar 20, 2021 via email

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abrahami commented Apr 7, 2021

Is there a way to connect the videos to users / usernames and their posts?

Did anyone find a way to do so?

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kylemcdonald commented Apr 10, 2021

A few quick notes for anyone still following this. This original GoFile link has been taken down, but it might still be available at this magnet URL:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1723e27bc79186c4574ff056ddb458d771c26e2f&dn=metadata.tar.gz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.btorrent.xyz&tr=wss%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openwebtorrent.com&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.leechers-paradise.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.coppersurfer.tk%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexplodie.org%3A6969&tr=udp%3A%2F%2

The SHA256 is 66809d9ae0a5a6577a3c80bb623562274ceccd96b35519f15f568d09cefc56f8.

For connecting videos to usernames and posts, check this dataset from Aliapoulios et al. I've also done some plots of term frequency.

If you are specifically interested in posts from January 6/7 please check the massive JSON linked to by this tweet. (direct link to torrent)

This may be the same as the 18GB torrent provided by DDOSecrets but I haven't checked.

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Hello,
I have a couple of questions: 1) is there location data and 2) can you identify the users across locations?
Thanks,
Derek

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Is there a way to connect the videos to users / usernames and their posts?

Hello. I have this same question. Did you get it answered per chance? Thanks.

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