I needed a method to archive my Discourse forum on GitHub, but I found that many of the available scripts were outdated or broken. So, I decided to create some simple scripts that meet my requirements. While they’re not perfect and still have a few minor issues, they serve my current needs since I don’t have much more time to spend on this project. https://github.com/c0mmando/discourse-to-markdown-archiver Archive new posts as JSON. Render topics to Markdown files. Support for multiple Discourse sites concurrently (one site at a time). Separate metadata tracking per site (last synchronization date and archived post IDs). Concurrent rendering of topics using a thread pool for improved performance. Exponential backoff for HTTP requests to handle rate limits or transient errors. https://github.com/c0mmando/discourse-to-github-archiver Archive Posts: Saves each Discourse post in a JSON file, organized by creation date. Concurrent Rendering: Renders topics concurrently, converting posts from HTML to Markdown. Image Downloading: Processes HTML to download images and rewrites image URLs to relative paths. Metadata Updating: Keeps track of archived posts to avoid duplicates. Incremental README Updates: Updates a README.md with a table of contents for easy navigation. Here is an example of Github archived forum: https[://]github[.]com/c0mmando/forum.hackliberty.org

[image] c0mmando: Here is an example of Github archived forum: https[://]github[.]com/c0mmando/forum.hackliberty.org Your link example has an extra “[” brackets. Removed them for link below. https://]github.com/c0mmando/forum.hackliberty.org

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Heliosurge (Dan DeMontmorency) March 7, 2025, 2:23am 2

Your link example has an extra “[” brackets. Removed them for link below.

https://]github.com/c0mmando/forum.hackliberty.org

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