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

[image] A basic Discourse archival tool Development 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 by Jeff Atwood, it’s “much harder than you’d think”…

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.

We used this with quiet some success then! wget --adjust-extension --mirror --page-requisites --convert-links --recursive --user-agent "Googlebot" https://forum.lescommuns.org Thanks @wangerin for the beginning, I completed with the SO . And then you see the website like google, but well …

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

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dax (Daniela) September 29, 2017, 8:37am 2

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

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