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)
3 نوفمبر 2021، 9:12ص
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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:
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…
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…
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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)
3 نوفمبر 2021، 10:44ص
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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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The page reloads and the URL reverts back to the original without the appendage.
osioke
(Osioke Itseuwa)
3 نوفمبر 2021، 10:50ص
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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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Im on Chrome… Lemme try with an update and get back in 2mins…
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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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osioke
(Osioke Itseuwa)
3 نوفمبر 2021، 11:53ص
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Maybe the site admin has disabled that? You should reach out to them.
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Yep, the admin sorted it for me… Thank you @osioke
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