# Archiving the public data of a forum

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-the-public-data-of-a-forum/111829>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [17.Март.2019 08:28:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-the-public-data-of-a-forum/111829 "2019-03-17T08:28:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [17.Март.2019 09:35:23 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-the-public-data-of-a-forum/111829/2 "2019-03-17T09:35:23Z")

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This is something I am interested in, there are a few topics touching on this already.

You can get fairly close by crawling with a webcrawler user agent, and saving the results as static HTML files. There are tools that do this, as covered in some existing topics.

Might be something we could run an external project for @sam to make a “pretty” version of that.

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