cointalk-archive

A complete archival static mirror of cointalk.ca — a Canadian cryptocurrency podcast that ran from 2013–2014, featuring early discussions of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the Canadian crypto community.

Live site: cointalk-archive.ca · bobsummerwill.github.io/cointalk-archive

What's archived

20 podcast episodes (004–020 + Ethereum specials + bonus episodes) with MP3 audio
18 additional pages (About, Events, Sponsors, blog posts, category archives)
Full WordPress theme (Twenty Thirteen) with CSS, JS, images, and fonts
112 HTML files total, all self-contained with no external dependencies

Episodes 015 and coinfest2014 exceed GitHub's 100 MB file limit and link to the Internet Archive instead.

Rebuilding from Wayback Machine

A reproducible builder script is included at scripts/wayback_build.py. It downloads pages and assets from the Wayback Machine, rewrites all URLs to be relative (no web.archive.org or cointalk.ca dependencies), and outputs a static site to docs/.

Setup

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Build

# Full build into docs/ (GitHub Pages compatible)
./scripts/wayback_build.py --verbose

# Preview locally
python3 -m http.server --directory docs 8000

Options

Flag	Description
`--timestamp YYYYMMDDHHMMSS`	Preferred Wayback capture date for snapshot resolution
`--max-items N`	Limit number of pages to build (useful for debugging)
`--clean`	Wipe output directory before rebuilding
`--no-resume`	Ignore cached progress and rebuild from scratch

The builder caches snapshot resolution and downloads under .cache/wayback/.

Known issues

Wayback Machine can be intermittent — some downloads may return HTML error pages instead of actual assets. The builder retries with multiple timestamps, but manual re-runs may be needed.
CSS files downloaded from Wayback may be HTML-wrapped (containing > instead of > in selectors). The builder handles this, but verify CSS after a fresh build.

Hosting

The site is hosted via GitHub Pages, serving static files directly from the docs/ directory (no Jekyll processing). A .nojekyll file is included to prevent Jekyll from interfering.

To configure for your own fork:

Go to Settings → Pages
Set Source to Deploy from a branch
Select branch main, folder /docs

License

See LICENSE.

bobsummerwill/cointalk-archive