# Is it possible to write a custom client other than a web browser?

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [Outubro 18, 2016, 5:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-write-a-custom-client-other-than-a-web-browser/51671 "2016-10-18T05:34:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [Outubro 19, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-possible-to-write-a-custom-client-other-than-a-web-browser/51671/11 "2016-10-19T17:31:16Z")

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> [@Samuel\_Crow](#):
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> I’d still have to use a Web Browser to view the whole post

No, you’d just need to do multiple requests to pull out all of the messages. As a rule, you get 20 posts at a time. [Here](https://github.com/pfaffman/discourse-downloader) is a Ruby program I wrote to download a topic (or all topics in a category) as text or HTML files.

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