Using Forum Offline?
Using Forum Offline?
Hi,
I often like to work offline, and I'm wondering if there's an easy way to download the entire forum. Or perhaps favorite topics. (I'm also afraid that one day the forum will disappear, and I'll lose my favorite user manual!). Maybe downloading it is unreasonable (is it tera-bytes?!) I can save 14 posts at a time as HTML, but that gets old fast!
Thanks,
Panther
I often like to work offline, and I'm wondering if there's an easy way to download the entire forum. Or perhaps favorite topics. (I'm also afraid that one day the forum will disappear, and I'll lose my favorite user manual!). Maybe downloading it is unreasonable (is it tera-bytes?!) I can save 14 posts at a time as HTML, but that gets old fast!
Thanks,
Panther
I explained that above. I like to work offline.Midnight wrote:whats wrong with viewing it online?
What does that mean? Sychronize it like a database? How does one synchronize it?Midnight wrote:synchronize it.
I explained that above too. Because I will lose my favorite "user manual". In other words, if it went offline, and I don't have a copy, I won't be able to learn from the forum anymore.Midnight wrote:why would you worry about the forum going down?
Ok, whatever. My point was, that it is "large".Midnight wrote:terabytes? lmfao... i doubt it. 20-200gb MAYBE.
If you can memorize 200 GB of text and images, you are a better man than I.Midnight wrote:I'm curious how big this forum is because I've read and memorized most of it.
hmm this is a pretty unusual request. the database is around 160mb, but that includes deleted spam, everyone's usernames, passwords, private messages and other personal data. it would take a fair bit of effort to remove all this, and then you'd need to run it on your own local webserver to make use of it. If there was enough demand I don't see why this wouldn't be possible, but for just one person I can't really justify spending the time.
Why not just use a webcrawler/spider to download all of the pages available from the root [http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/] and say 2 levels deep.
If you aren't familiar with a webcrawler, it is just a piece of software that requests a web page and parses out the links and images and stuff and downloads them into a folder or archive. Normally they keep track of how far out from the original page it has gone, so you don't download the entire site.
Travis
If you aren't familiar with a webcrawler, it is just a piece of software that requests a web page and parses out the links and images and stuff and downloads them into a folder or archive. Normally they keep track of how far out from the original page it has gone, so you don't download the entire site.
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