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Log Archiving
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2021 5:23 pm
by alek
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.
Re: Log Archiving
Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2021 11:17 am
by Manveer
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.
Re: Log Archiving
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 7:52 am
by alek
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.
Re: Log Archiving
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 8:32 am
by mgil
@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.
Re: Log Archiving
Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2021 10:28 am
by alek
Thanks! That works out great!