In my Discourse forum I have some very long topics and I can’t find a way to either print them or export them to other formats (like MS-Word for example). These are the ways I have tried but without success: Print from the browser: only a certain number of the first posts are printed, after which …

[image] Raw of a topic gives only the first ~100 posts support Append ?page=2 to the URL and so on.

Depending on how many replies there are, adding /print to the end of the main topic URL (eg. https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-print-or-export-very-long-topics/223138/print) could be useful to you. I think it still has a cut-off point, but in a quick test it gave me far more replies than the stand…

Yup, /print is the way to go. If you press Ctrl + p on the keyboard that should take you straight there. If you’d like to be able to access this from the UI, you can install this theme component: [image] GitHub - discourse/discourse-topic-print-component Contribute to discourse/…

Other than pressing Ctrl + p any time you want to either print or export to PDF/HTML, if you want to export to markdown you can visit the raw route like https://meta.discourse.org/raw/223138

Thanks Jammy and David, /print or Ctrl + p solved the problem. [image] Falco: if you want to export to markdown you can visit the raw route like https://meta.discourse.org/raw/223138 Sorry but I don’t understand how to use that URL for my own topic. Could you please clarify. Thanks.

forum.example.com/raw/topicID should give you a markdown file of the topic.

[image] sethm: forum.example.com/raw/topicID should give you a markdown file of the topic. It works, thanks, but the topic is truncated at post 100 out of 177. is there a way to get the text of the whole topic?

How to print or export very long topics

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Kemplen (Giani Rossi) April 4, 2022, 4:29pm 5

Thanks Jammy and David, /print or Ctrl + p solved the problem.

Sorry but I don’t understand how to use that URL for my own topic. Could you please clarify.
Thanks.

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