Hi, folks. I am looking at options for archiving content in a Discourse site. I have found the thread on creating and serving a WARC, which gives me something to work with, but I’d really like to export all the topics/threads/whatever as Markdown. I read this: Export topic as markdown Now I’d like…

I got there, but I would still love to hear about easier paths. Use Discourse admin to download a backup of the site. Find the PostgreSQL database dump inside the backup file, then restore that to a local database. select id from topics, then paste that into a file. Use sed or any of its cousins t…

[image] jbrains: Use Discourse admin to download a backup of the site. Find the PostgreSQL database dump inside the backup file, then restore that to a local database. select id from topics , then paste that into a file. Retrieve the category json, for example https://meta.discourse.org/c/s…

[image] RGJ: Retrieve the category json, for example https://meta.discourse.org/c/support.json (which redirects to https://meta.discourse.org/c/support/6.json ) Get the first batch of topic ID’s from the topic_list.topics array in that json. Retrieve topic_list.more_topics_url and goto #2 Th…

[image] jbrains: iterate over the categories? request /site.json and iterate over the categories array.

How to iterate over all the topics in order to export them as Markdown?

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RGJ (Richard - Communiteq) March 8, 2022, 11:07pm 5

request /site.json and iterate over the categories array.

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How to iterate over all the topics in order to export them as Markdown?

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