Read-only static HTML copy to retire Discourse instance

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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…

Archive an old forum "in place" to start a new Discourse forum

It took me way too long to figure out how to make a searchable WARC, so I’ll describe this here, hoping others will benefit as well. Download a copy of your Discourse site using wget to a WARC archive. Replace the capitalized strings with values specific to your site. wget --mirror \ --warc-file=MY_FORUM \ --warc-cdx \ --page-requisites \ --convert-links \ --adjust-extension \ --compression=auto \ --reject-regex "/search" \ --no-if-modified-si…