# How do I export the complete forum as static html pages?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-export-the-complete-forum-as-static-html-pages/71007
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [Septembre 29, 2017, 8:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-export-the-complete-forum-as-static-html-pages/71007 "2017-09-29T08:31:35Z")
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### Author:  [@wangerin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wangerin)
#### Post date: [Septembre 29, 2017, 8:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-export-the-complete-forum-as-static-html-pages/71007/1 "2017-09-29T08:31:35Z")
My discourse-forum is going to be shut down, as our org is soon being shutdown, but I’d like to keep a static version of the public porting of our forum.
How can I do that?
I tried to simply pull a copy using wget, but that didn’t get a usable result.
Thanx
/Henning
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### Author:  [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [Septembre 29, 2017, 8:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-export-the-complete-forum-as-static-html-pages/71007/2 "2017-09-29T08:37:24Z")
> [@A basic Discourse archival tool](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-basic-discourse-archival-tool/62614):
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> Archival tool updated with Codex May 2026 It seems that it’s pretty tricky to save an entire discourse site to a static version. According to [this post](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archive-an-old-forum-in-place-to-start-a-new-discourse-forum/13433/10) by Jeff Atwood, it’s “much harder than you’d think”. It doesn’t appear that this is a priority for the Discourse team, either, which is perfectly understandable. For my purposes, though, I found that I really needed some way to generate basic, static HTML versions of my Discourse sites. I’ve been using Discourse for a couple of years now as a d…
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### Author:  [@wangerin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/wangerin)
#### Post date: [Septembre 29, 2017, 11:44 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-export-the-complete-forum-as-static-html-pages/71007/3 "2017-09-29T11:44:22Z")
After reviewing til link Trash linked to, plus link in that thread, I found a solution:
`wget --wait=1 --recursive --page-requisites --user-agent "Googlebot" https:/site.com`
Without the --wait=1 pulling my site resulted in “TOO MANY REQUESTS”, but a delay solved that problem.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [Octobre 27, 2019, 1:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-export-the-complete-forum-as-static-html-pages/71007/4 "2019-10-27T01:16:23Z")
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### Author:  [@pierreozoux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pierreozoux)
#### Post date: [Mai 11, 2022, 2:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-export-the-complete-forum-as-static-html-pages/71007/5 "2022-05-11T14:36:45Z")
Nous l’avons utilisé avec un succès certain alors !
```plaintext
wget --adjust-extension --mirror --page-requisites --convert-links --recursive --user-agent "Googlebot" https://forum.lescommuns.org
```
Merci @wangerin pour le début, j’ai complété avec le [SO](https://serverfault.com/questions/441584/whats-the-best-way-to-create-a-static-backup-of-a-website).
Et ensuite, vous voyez le site web comme Google, mais bon 🙂