# Saving a Conversation
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 2, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061 "2021-11-02T22:36:58Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Lakshmi\_Balan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lakshmi_Balan)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/1 "2021-11-02T22:36:58Z")
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
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/2 "2021-11-03T09:12:37Z")
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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-and-category-export-import/38930):
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> 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 settingswarning if any of the groups have ‘membership requests’ enable…
> [@Export topic as markdown](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-topic-as-markdown-enabled-for-all-participants/152185):
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> I found this [UI: Topic and Category Export/Import](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ui-topic-and-category-export-import/39247) 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…
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### Author:  [@Lakshmi\_Balan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lakshmi_Balan)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 9:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/3 "2021-11-03T09:54:32Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 10:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/4 "2021-11-03T10:44:18Z")
Not sure how printing works in Mac, but try appending `/print` to any URL you want, that should give you the same result.
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### Author:  [@Lakshmi\_Balan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lakshmi_Balan)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 10:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/5 "2021-11-03T10:47:25Z")
The page reloads and the URL reverts back to the original without the appendage.
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 10:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/6 "2021-11-03T10:50:28Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Lakshmi\_Balan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lakshmi_Balan)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 10:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/7 "2021-11-03T10:51:50Z")
Im on Chrome.. Lemme try with an update and get back in 2mins..
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### Author:  [@Lakshmi\_Balan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lakshmi_Balan)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/8 "2021-11-03T10:54:01Z")
Im having difficulty… my url is –
and the appendage doesn’t go with it.
I’ll delete the URL once you’ve read it..
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/9 "2021-11-03T11:53:54Z")
Maybe the site admin has disabled that? You should reach out to them.
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### Author:  [@Lakshmi\_Balan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lakshmi_Balan)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/11 "2021-11-03T21:11:32Z")
Yep, the admin sorted it for me.. Thank you @osioke 🙌
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2021, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/saving-a-conversation/208061/12 "2021-11-04T10:05:43Z")