# Capture just the posts in a topic
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/capture-just-the-posts-in-a-topic/246401
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 22, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capture-just-the-posts-in-a-topic/246401 "2022-11-22T12:46:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Godin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seth_Godin)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capture-just-the-posts-in-a-topic/246401/1 "2022-11-22T12:46:25Z")
I saw this [thread](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-export-comments-under-a-specific-post/230008) but I’m not sure there can’t be an easier way.
Our board has a topic with 38 great posts in it.
I want to capture just the posts and put them in a word processor.
If I select all and copy, I get the posts but an enormous amount of junk as well. Same with a PDF.
Forgive me if I missed an easy way mentioned somewhere else. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capture-just-the-posts-in-a-topic/246401/2 "2022-11-22T22:55:05Z")
Try doing a control-of to print the page dns copying that.
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Godin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seth_Godin)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 11:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capture-just-the-posts-in-a-topic/246401/5 "2022-11-22T23:24:41Z")
thanks Jay
could you type that more slowly? I think it got garbled…
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### Author:  [@maiki](https://meta.discourse.org/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 11:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capture-just-the-posts-in-a-topic/246401/6 "2022-11-22T23:29:49Z")
I’ll let Jay clarify, but I wanted to ask if the raw markdown path works for you:
> [@How to Export Comments Under A Specific Post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-export-comments-under-a-specific-post/230008/2):
>
> use the raw format URL, e.g.: [https://meta.discourse.org/raw/230008](https://meta.discourse.org/raw/230008)
Right now if I visit [https://meta.discourse.org/raw/246401/](https://meta.discourse.org/raw/246401/) I can copy the following:
```plaintext
Seth_Godin | 2022-11-22 12:46:25 UTC | #1
I saw this [thread](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-export-comments-under-a-specific-post/230008) but I'm not sure there can't be an easier way.
Our board has a topic with 38 great posts in it.
I want to capture just the posts and put them in a word processor.
If I select all and copy, I get the posts but an enormous amount of junk as well. Same with a PDF.
Forgive me if I missed an easy way mentioned somewhere else. Thanks.
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pfaffman | 2022-11-22 22:55:05 UTC | #2
Try doing a control-of to print the page dns copying that.
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Seth_Godin | 2022-11-22 23:24:41 UTC | #5
thanks Jay
could you type that more slowly? I think it got garbled...
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```
Is there other information you want included/omitted from there? 🙂
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 11:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capture-just-the-posts-in-a-topic/246401/8 "2022-11-22T23:38:50Z")
That’s `control p`, as in print this page.
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Godin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Seth_Godin)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2022, 11:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capture-just-the-posts-in-a-topic/246401/10 "2022-11-22T23:54:27Z")
this is EXACTLY what I needed
thank you
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2022, 1:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/capture-just-the-posts-in-a-topic/246401/12 "2022-12-23T13:10:32Z")
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