Archiving an inactive discourse forum

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I need to archive a forum running discourse (not because discourse is not great, just because the forum isn’t active anymore). I thought about going the wget / httrack route, but that won’t work since the client side JavaScript will still try to fetch data via the APIs.

Is there a recommended way to archive a discourse forum?

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Did you switch it to read only? That is the first step.

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Thanks, I changed it to read only. What do you recommend as a next step to move the site towards a static HTML site that I can serve using GitHub pages or AWS CloudFront?

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You could try crawling the HTML-only view mostly designed for search engines.

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Also a good idea, crawl using the Google webcrawler user agent.

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