# A basic Discourse archival tool

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-basic-discourse-archival-tool/62614
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 12, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-basic-discourse-archival-tool/62614 "2017-05-12T20:20:12Z")
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### Author: ![Silvanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/silvanus/32/62831_2.png) [@Silvanus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Silvanus)
#### Post date: [July 19, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-basic-discourse-archival-tool/62614/35 "2017-07-19T13:08:26Z")

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I’m hosting a forum that is currently, in its third iteration, running Discourse. Our last two forums were (I think, phpbb2 or something like that). I have resolved to archive them using Discourse, so that:

1. I scan the phpbb2 database into Discourse (there’s a [migration tool](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-a-phpbb2-forum-to-discourse/31844))
2. I create a static HTML archive using Discourse.
3. I put up the static HTML archive into public use (preferably in the same place where our dynamic forum running Discourse is).

According to the first message

> There are no user pages or category pages

Could it be somehow advanced so that creating category views would be also possible?

Also, any help on how to use the Jupyter notebook thing? First time I hear of this…

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