Hello Discourse I am using Discourse as a learning community member. Love the platform. We have these amazing discussions pertaining to topics and categories. I want to roll all these conversations and save 'em to my local disc, for reference. Is it possible to export a conversation, especially ones that are lengthy, having 100s of responses? I tried using the browser ‘print’ feature but the content is lost at the juncture of pages. Thanks lakshmi

You can do CTRL + P or append /print to any URL in Discourse to save it as a PDF. Also, see these topics with details on this feature, it has been discussed extensively: [image] Move topics from one Discourse instance to another Self-Hosting Need to move some stuff from one instance of Discourse to another? There is a command line tool to export a topic, a set of topics, or an entire category, and another to import them in at the other end. Topic Export/Import one or more topics and their replies the users who posted in the topic Category Export/Import the category and all its subcategories its security settings custom groups mentioned in the security settings warning if any of the groups have ‘membership requests’ enable… [image] Export topic as markdown Feature I found this UI: Topic and Category Export/Import but that does not cover what I was thinking about: A means to export an entire public or DM topic as a single markdown document where the export action is UI-accessible to all the participants in said topic. And maybe (but for me not required) to have this feature available for anyone on public topics. I interact with many Discourse forums publicly and DM’ingly and have a need to archive discussions there in a personal markdown-based knowled…

Thank you @osioke I tried the Command+P on my MacBook for Chrome but it is not working.. I am not a coder to work with HTML or JavaScript or other such recommendations. I want to export to PDF, that’s all.

Not sure how printing works in Mac, but try appending /print to any URL you want, that should give you the same result.

The page reloads and the URL reverts back to the original without the appendage.

Im on Chrome.. Lemme try with an update and get back in 2mins..

Im having difficulty… my url is – and the appendage doesn’t go with it. I’ll delete the URL once you’ve read it..

Maybe the site admin has disabled that? You should reach out to them.

Yep, the admin sorted it for me.. Thank you @osioke :raised_hands:

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osioke (Osioke Itseuwa) November 3, 2021, 10:50am 6

Interesting! It works fine for me on Edge

What browser are you using and what version is your Discourse instance? Can you try on the latest chrome browser here on Meta?

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