Using Forum Offline?

Panther · Post by **Panther** » Fri Apr 13, 2007 5:23 pm

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

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Sat Apr 14, 2007 3:27 am

whats wrong with viewing it online?

synchronize it.

why would you worry about the forum going down?

terabytes? lmfao... i doubt it. 20-200gb MAYBE.

I'm curious how big this forum is because I've read and memorized most of it.

Panther · Post by **Panther** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 1:16 am

Midnight wrote:whats wrong with viewing it online?

I explained that above. I like to work offline.

Midnight wrote:synchronize it.

What does that mean? Sychronize it like a database? How does one synchronize it?

Midnight wrote:why would you worry about the forum going down?

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:terabytes? lmfao... i doubt it. 20-200gb MAYBE.

Ok, whatever. My point was, that it is "large".

Midnight wrote:I'm curious how big this forum is because I've read and memorized most of it.

If you can memorize 200 GB of text and images, you are a better man than I.

bitplane · Post by **bitplane** » Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:50 pm

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.

3ddev · Post by **3ddev** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:20 am

Also, you could never get an up-to-date database off-line. Therefore, unless you plan to read old threads, I don't really see the point.

belfegor · Post by **belfegor** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:18 pm

panther wrote:I often like to work offline...

me too.
You probably need 2% of whole forum, the rest is probably useless.
I saved most of the pages that have useful informations for my needs.
So i recommend for you to take few hours(maybie 1-2 days) to collect it
and sort it.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:22 pm

You can copy paste the contents you want into notepad/ms word/etc. Isn't that better than download the whole forum (which is not really possible) down?

roxaz · Post by **roxaz** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:04 pm

internet is meant to be online thing, so is forum

vitek · Post by **vitek** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:46 am

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

FlyingIsFun1217 · Post by **FlyingIsFun1217** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:18 pm

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roxaz · Post by **roxaz** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:26 pm

FlyingIsFun1217, your image says that on 14kb downloaded free space ends. great hdd

FlyingIsFun1217 · Post by **FlyingIsFun1217** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:32 pm

Eh, you get the point

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rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:51 pm

wget.

FlyingIsFun1217 · Post by **FlyingIsFun1217** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:52 pm

rogerborg wrote:wget.

Simplicity at it's best

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