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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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konsumer commented Jan 19, 2021 •
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@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:
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@konsumer

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

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There are some great resources here.

@FeelingMathy
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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

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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!

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darthnithin commented Jul 10, 2022 •
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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!

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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.

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