# 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
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**Created:** [September 29, 2017, 8:31am 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: ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2017, 8:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-do-i-export-the-complete-forum-as-static-html-pages/71007/2 "2017-09-29T08:37:24Z")

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> [@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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