# Any updates on the best way to create a HTML archive of a static site?

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**Created:** [July 10, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-updates-on-the-best-way-to-create-a-html-archive-of-a-static-site/373808 "2025-07-10T23:10:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![justin\_gordon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/justin_gordon/32/105029_2.png) [@justin\_gordon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/justin_gordon)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/any-updates-on-the-best-way-to-create-a-html-archive-of-a-static-site/373808/1 "2025-07-10T23:10:36Z")

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Update!

This might be the answer:  
[https://github.com/jamesob/discourse-archive](https://github.com/jamesob/discourse-archive)

I looked at:

[Improving Discourse static HTML archive](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discourse-static-html-archive/112497).

It’s old.

I’m going to retire [https://forum.talksurf.com/](https://forum.talksurf.com/).

Yes, I’m going to archive a backup.

But what if I just want some browseable HTML files?

Should I just run [ArchiveDiscourse/archive-discourse.py at master · kitsandkats/ArchiveDiscourse · GitHub](https://github.com/kitsandkats/ArchiveDiscourse/blob/master/archive-discourse.py) ?

Or is there something better?

Thanks in advance!

CC: @pfaffman

Aloha,

Justin

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