Saving a Conversation

[Lakshmi_Balan (Lakshmi Balasubramani)]

Hello Discourse

I am using Discourse as a learning community member. Love the platform. We have these amazing discussions pertaining to topics and categories.
I want to roll all these conversations and save 'em to my local disc, for reference. Is it possible to export a conversation, especially ones that are lengthy, having 100s of responses? I tried using the browser ‘print’ feature but the content is lost at the juncture of pages.
Thanks
lakshmi

[osioke (Osioke Itseuwa)]

You can do CTRL + P or append /print to any URL in Discourse to save it as a PDF.

Also, see these topics with details on this feature, it has been discussed extensively:

Move topics from one Discourse instance to another

Need to move some stuff from one instance of Discourse to another? There is a command line tool to export a topic, a set of topics, or an entire category, and another to import them in at the other end. Topic Export/Import one or more topics and their replies the users who posted in the topic Category Export/Import the category and all its subcategories its security settings custom groups mentioned in the security settings if any of the groups have ‘membership requests’ enable…

Export topic as markdown

I found this UI: Topic and Category Export/Import but that does not cover what I was thinking about: A means to export an entire public or DM topic as a single markdown document where the export action is UI-accessible to all the participants in said topic. And maybe (but for me not required) to have this feature available for anyone on public topics. I interact with many Discourse forums publicly and DM’ingly and have a need to archive discussions there in a personal markdown-based knowled…

[Lakshmi_Balan (Lakshmi Balasubramani)]

Thank you @osioke I tried the Command+P on my MacBook for Chrome but it is not working..
I am not a coder to work with HTML or JavaScript or other such recommendations.
I want to export to PDF, that’s all.

[osioke (Osioke Itseuwa)]

Not sure how printing works in Mac, but try appending /print to any URL you want, that should give you the same result.

[Lakshmi_Balan (Lakshmi Balasubramani)]

The page reloads and the URL reverts back to the original without the appendage.

[osioke (Osioke Itseuwa)]

Interesting! It works fine for me on Edge

What browser are you using and what version is your Discourse instance? Can you try on the latest chrome browser here on Meta?

[Lakshmi_Balan (Lakshmi Balasubramani)]

Im on Chrome.. Lemme try with an update and get back in 2mins..

[Lakshmi_Balan (Lakshmi Balasubramani)]

Im having difficulty… my url is –
and the appendage doesn’t go with it.
I’ll delete the URL once you’ve read it..

[osioke (Osioke Itseuwa)]

Maybe the site admin has disabled that? You should reach out to them.

[Lakshmi_Balan (Lakshmi Balasubramani)]

Yep, the admin sorted it for me.. Thank you @osioke