How to view a video on Parler.

parler-video.md

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".

@bgriffith830 try @konsumer's map here

I can view the map fine so far, but I am unable to connect to the parler video website (http://video.parler.com)

even OP's link is not working for me... I wonder what the issue could be?

Many of the videos are being deleted. But some still work. Fortunately, others already downloaded them all, already.

Here are some random examples that work right now for me:

https://parlervid.herokuapp.com/kiBnNejo0JW0
https://parlervid.herokuapp.com/nsGBrdULuoWo
https://parlervid.herokuapp.com/wHVhMQvebXJP

They are very slow (probly due to all the people trying to watch the videos) but they load.

I can view the map fine so far, but I am unable to connect to the parler video website (http://video.parler.com)

In order to use that host you need to do the hosts-trick above, but I am just using a proxy I setup to make it easier (so you don't need to make changes to your system.)

@bgriffith830 try @konsumer's map here

ah okay, i didn't realize this was a different map! I tried clicking a dot and got an Access Denied error, but a different dot worked! Thanks for the help :-)

@rgs2007

It would nice if someone could loop throught the links, remove tho ones that return an error and create a map including only the ones the video works with a link. ;)

Yeh, the videos are slowly all going this way from this direct-hosting method, but they have been archived elsewhere. As an example, here are a ton from DC that are gone, now. Very soon (like probly in days) they will all be gone. Once all the videos are hosted somewhere, maps like these will make it possible to grab them by ID. I think part of the problem is the massive size of the data, it's like 70TB, which takes a long time to transfer, but also has space-requirements that many can't support (I don't have any 70TB drives laying around.)

I updated my map and proxy to prefer a couple mirrors (I think @bgriffith830 added some for portland, and also there is a Jan 6 DC mirror.) If anyone else has mirrors they'd like me to add to the list, the format I'm using is this:

{
  "ID": "URL"
}

so send me a big JSON file if you download videos, and I can double-check that on the list, before trying to use the IP hack to get it.

The bonus of this is a map & big list of non-centralized, but easy to use way to link to a video. for example

Also, anyone who wants to can use my code to setup their own heroku map/proxy.

I updated my map and proxy to prefer a couple mirrors (I think @bgriffith830 added some for portland, and also there is a Jan 6 DC mirror.) If anyone else has mirrors they'd like me to add to the list, the format I'm using is this:

{
  "ID": "URL"
}

so send me a big JSON file if you download videos, and I can double-check that on the list, before trying to use the IP hack to get it.

The bonus of this is a map & big list of non-centralized, but easy to use way to link to a video. for example

Also, anyone who wants to can use my code to setup their own heroku map/proxy.

Hey there, I think you might have tagged the wrong person, I haven't added anything for Portland :- )

@bgriffiths830 oh sorry, I thought you downloaded this gofile collection. I couldn't find a source-link on what I assumed (by your name, which now that I look closer is only similar) was your twitter. Well, anyway, that person got some of the PDX videos.

If anyone is interested, I also geocoded all the data into state/city/country and put them in a sqlite database, for faster/easier searching.

https://github.com/notnullgames/parlerviddownloader

Is there a way to find the parler username from a video id?

@BeasPrattle My sqlite file has some of that, but the CSV I found to create that wasn't complete, so not all IDs are currently correlated. My map has that data (and you can hide points without user-info.)

Here you can see a lot are missing user-info:

@konsumer

Thank you so much. For everything. I'm learning as I go here and I love you guys

There are some great resources here.

Made a time-series map here of the 6th: https://arcg.is/LneGS

Anyone using DDOSecrets to try and grab the files? I keep getting 403 errors for every file I request, even their example files

Hi, Kyle and others. I have a question. It looks like there are videos geocoded across all of the US. But, I have only been able to locate videos or Parler posts for activities around the Capital area. Is there a repository or dataset for all of the related/harvested Paler posts? Thanks and great work to all of you on this! So awesome to see data science in action! Also, yay science!

Hi, Kyle and others. I have a question. It looks like there are videos geocoded across all of the US. But, I have only been able to locate videos or Parler posts for activities around the Capital area. Is there a repository or dataset for all of the related/harvested Paler posts? Thanks and great work to all of you on this! So awesome to see data science in action! Also, yay science!

@jderekito
I mean there is https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ThPUH5HgTcVKCoyfr2oJ21AWKTGq-dR-cRZjPOER-Q0/ this spreadsheet I made 2 years ago with descriptions of over 500 videos, but that doesn’t really help with non-Jan 6 videos, because I think most of these are Jan 6 Capitol videos.