On December 12, 2017 Storify announced that they were going to shut down completely on May 16, 2018. Users have until then to download their stories at which point they will disappear from the web.
storified is a little utility for downloading your stories as HTML, XML and JSON--which can be handy if you have a bunch of stories. You can take these files and mount them on your own website and point your links to them instead of Storify.
storified will also rewrite the index.html to use local images, css and
javascript that are downloaded. The originally downloaded index.html is
stored as index-original.html.
- Install Python
- pip install storified
% storified.py <storify username>
This will create a directory named after your username, which contains a sub-directory for each story, which in turn contains the HTML, JSON and XML export files for the story. For example, here is a partial directory structure created for the digdialog Storify user:
digdialog/
├── a-woman-s-touch-manual-labor-pink-collar-workers-a
│ ├── css
│ ├── images
│ ├── js
│ ├── index.html
│ ├── index-original.html
│ ├── index.json
│ └── index.xml
├── alberto-campagnolo-digital-dialogue-november-1-201
│ ├── css
│ ├── images
│ ├── js
│ ├── index.html
│ ├── index-original.html
│ ├── index.json
│ └── index.xml
...
If you want to control where the downloaded files go use the --download-dir command line option:
storified.py --download-dir /path/to/my/stories
If you'd rather not install storified with pip you can also run it using Docker.
% docker run -v <PATH>:/storified docnow/storified <STORIFY_USERNAME>
You will need to replace <PATH> with the full path to the directory you would
like the files to be downloaded to, and <STORIFY_USERNAME> to be the Storify
username who created the stories.
For example if you wanted to download digdialog's stories to /home/ed/storified:
% docker run -v /home/ed/storified:/storified/downloads docnow/storified digdialog