When the WWE Network version 2 was launched in July 2019, all the previous video links were rendered invalid. This database tries to provide a mapping from the old links to the new ones, to help site owners with deep links to migrate their pages.
When the WWE Network version 3 was launched in August 2023, they again rendered all old video links invalid. I then updated the mapping to provide links from both version 1 and version 2 to the version 3 links.
The list is far from complete, it only contains the events that I had linked in my database. Additions are welcome.
The mapping file is a simple comma-separated file, where the first line contains a header.
The fields are as follows:
- Version 1 ID. This is just the numerical ID, the initial link part
(often
http://network.wwe.com/video/v) is omitted. If this field is-the video did not exist in version 1, or if I do not have the version 1 video ID available. - Version 2 ID. This is with the prefix
(
https://watch.wwe.com/episode/) omitted. If starting with a /, relative tohttps://watch.wwe.com/. - Promotion (WWE, WCW, ECW, NXT, NXT UK)
- Year.
- Event title.
- Version 3 ID. This is with the prefix
(
https://network.wwe.com/video/) omitted. The name part after the second slash is optional.
The script rewritehtml.perl can be used to rewrite links in HTML pages.
Run it from the database directory and pass the names of the files you wish
to rewrite as parameters. It will update all known links, leaving any
links not mapped in the database alone.
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Peter Krefting [email protected]