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GPC
Sat 26th Apr '08, 7:46pm
Here's one to ponder and I have searched yet cannot find an answer.

I run a forum that will be shutting down as of May. Many of the members would be interested in keeping a copy of the site so they could re-read some of the threads.

Is there a way to archive a "static" read only copy that could be opened in a browser if that copy was burned to DVD. I reaslize that no editing, posting would be possible but cannot fugure out if this would somehow be possible.

Any ideas would be great.

GPC

Jose Amaral Rego
Sat 26th Apr '08, 8:46pm
I would request to move this thread into 'Chit Chat' forum by reporting it.

Would be something like this, but have not try it to see if it just downloads only a page.
http://www.surfoffline.com/

Dean C
Sat 26th Apr '08, 9:37pm
The easiest way to do it would be to use a site scraping tool.

Chousho
Sun 27th Apr '08, 3:48am
Wouldn't the most efficient way be to query the db that dumps each thread into its own static HTML page? Shouldn't be too hard with a little bit of Python or PHP.

Excalibur!
Sun 27th Apr '08, 4:27am
Try Server2Go (http://www.server2go-web.de/)

Dean C
Sun 27th Apr '08, 7:25am
Wouldn't the most efficient way be to query the db that dumps each thread into its own static HTML page? Shouldn't be too hard with a little bit of Python or PHP.

I thought about that but you'd have to generate pagination, correct links and all sorts. Why bother with that when you can use an existing tool :)