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Reply #1 - 2013 February 20, 10:14 am
thedoc Member
From: Italy Registered: 2011-07-13 Posts: 21

Hi,
regarding http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/ is there a way to access news articles older than 30 days? Or is anyone of you regularly saving them for offline reading?

Thanks!

Reply #2 - 2013 February 20, 10:42 am
Savii Member
From: Netherlands Registered: 2012-08-13 Posts: 107

buonaparte links to a downloadable archive in his links thread: http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_ … eb%20EASY/
I don't know how complete it is but judging by the size I bet you'll be busy for a while wink

Reply #3 - 2013 February 21, 3:45 am
gombost Member
Registered: 2010-10-26 Posts: 69

In addition, there's an add-on for Firefox which can be used to download the audio and video files from the site.

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Reply #4 - 2013 February 21, 12:08 pm
thedoc Member
From: Italy Registered: 2011-07-13 Posts: 21

@Savii, thank you! 6 months worth of articles, good stuff.

@gombost, are you able to download this video with that addon? http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/2013022 … 91000.html
It doesn't seem to be working for me. I've tried with DownloadHelper and Flashgot as well.

Reply #5 - 2013 February 21, 5:28 pm
gombost Member
Registered: 2010-10-26 Posts: 69

Indeed, it doesn't work. Sorry, I remembered it wrong.

Buonaparte had mentioned a software for this somewhere...
I've found it, here smile Replay Media Catcher. It might be hard to find though.

Reply #6 - 2013 February 21, 6:11 pm
thedoc Member
From: Italy Registered: 2011-07-13 Posts: 21

Oh no worries, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't just me. Yes I was already toying with different stream downloaders and that one works great.

From now on I'll be saving them on my computer. If only I had found out sooner!

By the way since we are at it, please clear something for me. The one I linked is the more difficult version of the same news found here http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/2013022 … 91000.html correct?

Reply #7 - 2013 February 22, 1:47 am
gombost Member
Registered: 2010-10-26 Posts: 69

thedoc wrote:

Oh no worries, I just wanted to make sure it wasn't just me. Yes I was already toying with different stream downloaders and that one works great.

From now on I'll be saving them on my computer. If only I had found out sooner!

By the way since we are at it, please clear something for me. The one I linked is the more difficult version of the same news found here http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy/2013022 … 91000.html correct?

I'm glad it works smile

Yes, they are the same news, one is the original and the other is the easy version. You can always reach the original from the easy page by clicking on the "Ippan no nyuusu genkou wa kochira" link (I don't have Japanese IME on this computer) above the picture of the video.

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