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Log Archiving

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Post by alek » Fri Oct 29, 2021 5:23 pm

Huzzah!! The site is back up!!

So, is there a way to archive a thread on the forum that produces a "nice" output--like a .txt file or something similar of all the entries as they are input in the text editor?

That'd be a pretty useful thing to have.

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Re: Log Archiving

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Post by Manveer » Sat Oct 30, 2021 11:17 am

alek wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 5:23 pm Huzzah!! The site is back up!!

So, is there a way to archive a thread on the forum that produces a "nice" output--like a .txt file or something similar of all the entries as they are input in the text editor?

That'd be a pretty useful thing to have.
I don’t see any phpbb extensions that are already made with this functionality. If there are any, let me know.

I don’t have experience creating extensions for phpbb. If anyone else on the forum does and wants to make this, let me know.

I’m a little hesitant to even suggest this given how terrible HostGator is, but… a roundabout way would be to create a web scraping script to download the full HTML from each page in a thread. Just put some pauses in there so you don’t crash the site.

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Re: Log Archiving

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Post by alek » Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:52 am

Manveer wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 11:17 am
alek wrote: Fri Oct 29, 2021 5:23 pm Huzzah!! The site is back up!!

So, is there a way to archive a thread on the forum that produces a "nice" output--like a .txt file or something similar of all the entries as they are input in the text editor?

That'd be a pretty useful thing to have.
I don’t see any phpbb extensions that are already made with this functionality. If there are any, let me know.

I don’t have experience creating extensions for phpbb. If anyone else on the forum does and wants to make this, let me know.

I’m a little hesitant to even suggest this given how terrible HostGator is, but… a roundabout way would be to create a web scraping script to download the full HTML from each page in a thread. Just put some pauses in there so you don’t crash the site.
Yeah, I'm not savvy enough to write such a script, so no worries about that. And I certainly don't want to do anything that'll jeopardize the site.

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Re: Log Archiving

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Post by mgil » Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:32 am

@alek, if you have an apple device with a later version of the iOS:

https://mashable.com/article/how-to-scr ... iphone?amp

This allows you to screenshot an entire page as a searchable .pdf.

It’s not the best thing, but it’s a decent shortcut.

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Re: Log Archiving

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Post by alek » Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:28 am

mgil wrote: Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:32 am alek, if you have an apple device with a later version of the iOS:

https://mashable.com/article/how-to-scr ... iphone?amp

This allows you to screenshot an entire page as a searchable .pdf.

It’s not the best thing, but it’s a decent shortcut.
Thanks! That works out great!

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