How can I download comments of any topic or Entire topic list with comments from any category ?
Can someone help me.
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Downloading Comments and Topics
The discussion revolves around finding ways to download comments and topics from Discourse. Pandiyan initially asked if it’s possible to download comments or entire topics with comments from any category. merefield suggested using the Discourse API, providing links to relevant meta discussions.
Pandiyan sought a simpler approach, inquiring if there’s a way to download topics/categories directly from the UI. pfaffman proposed using the print function (control-p) to save topics to disk. However, Pandiyan clarified that they want to download topics as documents/PDFs with clear formatting of comments and replies.
pfaffman suggested using the print function with the “save as PDF” option to achieve this. merefield shared additional ideas on exporting comments under specific posts, providing another link to a meta discussion.
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Thank you @merefield for your guidance,
But I would like to know that, is there any possibility to download the topic/category from UI itself, instead of doing all this thing in server end.
This could be more helpful for me if there is any way to achieve this.
You can use control-p to print the topic and that will let you save to disk. Is that what you mean?
No, I want to download it as a document/pdf with clear understanding of the comments or replies to the topic. Like it should contain all the content of the topic. Is there a way ?
Type “control-p” and “save as pdf”. Try it right now on this topic.
Here’s a couple of related ideas: How to Export Comments Under A Specific Post - #2 by merefield