Reviews for QuArk
QuArk by iridiumblue
Review by Ernest Adams
Rated 3 out of 5
by Ernest Adams, 3 years agoI'm very happy that this exists, and it's trivial to use. My own usage, however, represents a torture-test of the extension. because I have over 38,000 answers. It hung at about 12,000 with the message "Quark stalled - reindexing" but it doesn't seem to have gone on again. I left it alone for several hours and nothing happened. Clearly there's an upper bound on what it can do.
9 reviews
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 16750859, 3 years agoI would have given it a 5 star if it had not stopped being useful since Quora recently changed its display format in the Answer summary page. Now this page displays only statistics of each answer and not their contents. SInce QuArk points to this page by default, now I can only download these statistics, not the contents, which is not very useful. Before this change QuArk was working great! But now I cannot use it any more.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Alex Stargazer, 4 years agoIt said QuArk stalled at one point, but it did download all of my answers in a readable HTML format. If it also supported automatically downloading my bookmarked answers, it would be perfect. (I did eventually manage to do that but Quora does not make it easy.)
Good riddance to Quora. - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15220674, 5 years agoThis extension ultimately worked for me. I had problems with it initially, but a second try downloaded my archive. I believe it to be complete.
What I would really like for it to do NEXT is to download all of my bookmarked posts. Quora does a horrible, sub-standard job of allowing me to manage bookmarked answers, so having them locally would be a real benefit.
Thanks for taking the time to make this, Iridiumblue! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15133114, 5 years agoI read about this foxfire add on on Quora and immediately got foxfire, and downloaded QuArk. everything installed on my Mac just fine. I then ran QuArk, and it walked me through the process of downloading all of my 1600 answers. The resulting html file can be opened with various apps. I intend to use the Excel format for categorizing each answer then sorting by topic. The plugin works great. Just sent some $$ to chris.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Jess, 5 years agoLike the other 1-star reviewer, I ran QuArk overnight to find my display manager crashed in the morning; I had to reboot my server to recover. What's the prognosis on getting QuArk to handle larger numbers of items? Or allow downloading them in smaller batches?
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14428054, 6 years agoDoesn't work for very large numbers of answers. I have a huge number of answers (more than 26,000). When it runs, the message banner says "Total answers: NaN." It goes through the work of downloading all the answers, but never saves them to disk.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoFair cop. That's above our altitude record of 21,000. You are up in the 99.9%-ile. No worries though, as my work schedule permits I will work directly with you to get 'er done.
(One challenge for me as a dev is since I can't log into your account, I don't have access to a feed this large to test. But we can figure out some remote debugging ...)
Please contact the FB page here https://www.facebook.com/QuArk-1941140742769432/ . It may take 30-45 days to make time for your fix, but I'm personally committed to liberating the content of Every. Last. Quoran. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13872443, 7 years agoFinally! A tool that can bulk download content from Quora. I've wanted this for years. It quietly and cleanly downloaded almost 7000 answers into a nice, clean HTML file.
- Rated 5 out of 5by From_Ariel, 7 years agoTook only 20 minuts to download almost 3000 answers including formatting, images and links. Works as described.