Recovering Anthony Bourdain's (really) lost Li.st's

Summary

Loved reading through GReg TeChnoLogY Anthony Bourdain’s Lost Li.st’s and seeing the list of lost Anthony Bourdain li.st’s made me think on whether at least some of them we can recover. Having worked in security and crawling space for majority of my career—I don’t have the access nor permission to use the proprietary storages—I thought we might be able to find something from publicly available crawl archives. Common Crawl If Internet Archive had the partial list that Greg published, what about the Common Crawl? Reading through their documentation, it seems straightforward enough to get prefix index for Tony’s lists and grep for any sub-paths. Putting something up with help of Claude to prove my theory, we have commoncrawl_search.py that makes a single index request to a specific dataset and if any hits discovered, retrieve them from the public s3 bucket—since they are small straight-up HTML documents, seems even more feasible than I had initially thought. Simply have a python version around 3.14.2 and install the dependencies from requirements.txt. Run the below and we are in business. Now, below, you’ll find the command I ran and then some manual archeological effort to prettify the findings. NOTE Images have been lost. Other avenues had struck no luck. I’ll try again later. Any and all emphasis, missing punctuation, cool grammar is all by Anthony Bourdain. The only modifications I have made is to the layout, to represent li.st as closely as possible with no changes to the content. NOTE If you see these blocks, that’s me commenting if pictures have been lost. Recovering what we lost From Greg’s page, let’s go and try each entry one by one, I’ll put the table of what I wasn’t able to find in Common Crawl, but I would assume exists elsewhere—I’d be happy to take another look. And no, none of this above has been written by AI, only the code since I don’t really care about warcio encoding or writing the same python requests method for the Nth time. Enjoy! Things I No L...