A basic Discourse archival tool

[brechtm (Brecht Machiels)]

I’ve gotten good results with wget, including authentication. Described here:

Archive an old forum "in place" to start a new Discourse forum

It took me way too long to figure out how to make a searchable WARC, so I’ll describe this here, hoping others will benefit as well. Download a copy of your Discourse site using wget to a WARC archive. Replace the capitalized strings with values specific to your site. wget --mirror \ --warc-file=MY_FORUM \ --warc-cdx \ --page-requisites \ --convert-links \ --adjust-extension \ --compression=auto \ --reject-regex "/search" \ --no-if-modified-si…