Evidently the technical explanation in @jaded’s first post isn’t accurate, at least as far as how the general archival of the site went. It seems that Parler just sequentially numbered all of their media, so it was possible to just scrape the entire site’s media CDN by counting up from 1. On top of that, their app’s API was reverse-engineered before it was removed from the Google and Apple app stores, and I suspect it had the ability to just query for posts by date range, so the whole thing ended up being devastatingly easy to index.
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