Help Wanted: Hong Kong's pro-democracy newspaper in imminent danger : DataHoarder

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Hong Kong's most-read pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, has had its office raided, its executives arrested, its assets frozen in the last few days. This is the death knell of press freedom in Hong Kong, and Apple Daily's trove of reporting on the 2019 Anti-Extradition Protests and Tiananmen massacre vigils is under imminent danger of disappearing in a few days. I'm a noob at archiving and a project of this size and deadline is well beyond my means and knowledge. I need help backing this up to Wayback Machine.

Unfortunately, there is a paywall. The first article is free, the next ones are paywalled, enforced by cookies. In my testing, it seems like the paywall doesn't affect tools like wget or curl. If all else fails, you could try using googlebot's user agent:

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