Exportação em massa de fontes de postagem brutas com marcação

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Hi,

our company runs Discourse to support our customers and strengthen customer relationships. For staff onboarding, we created documentation using Doc Categories and DiscoTOC, which works great.

However, I’d like to request a feature that would allow exporting the documentation sources – specifically the raw text including markup – to a plain text file.

:information_source: I am aware of the browser’s PDF print option, which doesn’t help when raw sources are needed rather than parsed ones. I also know about the built-in backup function and database queries, but these are not practical solutions for frontend administration.

For now, my workflow is: Edit the post → STRG-A, STRG-C → create / open a text file → STRG-V, STRG-S → Discard Editing… next post.

A built-in bulk export option would provide several benefits:

  • much easier maintenance for knowledge bases
  • better backup and versioning workflows for admins in the frontend
  • flexible reuse of content outside of Discourse

:right_arrow: Such a feature would be a real productivity gain for communities that use Discourse as a documentation hub, not only for support.

I’d be curious to hear your thoughts.

Cheers

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One of my problems is treating feature requests like they are support requests. Oops, I’ve done it again. Sorry if this is no help.

So you want something like this: https://meta.discourse.org/posts/1849580/raw or this: https://meta.discourse.org/raw/381447 or this https://meta.discourse.org/raw/381447/1

Oh. You want the raw text from all posts in the topic.

This isn’t a solution, but an improved version of that is. But that doesn’t save very many clicks.

That’s pretty easy to automate with some command line tools. A clever one would get the json of the topic to see how many posts there were and then get them all, perhaps pausing to deal with rate limiting.

A theme component could give you links to the raw text for each post. A plugin could do what you want.

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Hi Jay,

thanks for your response.

This solution is already discussed in How to iterate over all the topics in order to export them as Markdown?, but it’s not practical for larger documentations (→ efficiency) and frontend administration (→ competence).

So yes… no support, but a real feature request from my side :wink:

Cheers

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I think 📄 Copy Post Component which copies the post directly could be helpful in this case. It reduces

to one click. But it’s still not bulk copying

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It eases the pain… bookmarked.

Thanks

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You can create a Data Explorer query that returns posts.raw, and call the query using the API.

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