How do I export the complete forum as static html pages?

[wangerin (Henning)]

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

[Dax (Daniela)]

A basic Discourse archival tool

It seems that it’s pretty tricky to save an entire discourse site to a static version. According to this post 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 discussion board when teaching my college ma…

[wangerin (Henning)]

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.