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[FuZoRBlade]

Does anyone know of any way to save an entire forum to your hard drive so that you can browse it offline while on a plane or somehwere without internet access? Also, the forum I need to save requres you to be logged in, so how would that work?

 

[Chompman]

Print screen button and ms-paint a few hundred times 😛

 

[ChooChooChooseMe]

If you could do that, that would be pretty darn cool.

 

[tami]

uh, i'm not sure if the firefox extension "scrapbook" can do it, but it's a pretty darn cool extension. i've never tried it on forums though. rossman may have a better answer as he's used it more extensively than i.

 

[DAGTA]

If you can get the forum software and the database, you can run it locally. Easy to do with PHPBB if you can get the database. Doubtful that the AT crew is going to give you a copy of this database, though.

 

[Chaotic42]

wget works.

 

[FuZoRBlade]

yeah.. so is there any other way besides accessing the database?

 

[FuZoRBlade]

i dont think wget works on forums in which you have to login to view topics.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: FuZoRBlade
i dont think wget works on forums in which you have to login to view topics.

It has user and password flags. They might work.

 

[RossMAN]

One of these offline browsers should work.

There may be a FireFox extension for offline browsing, it's worth a shot.

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
One of these offline browsers should work.

There may be a https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/">FireFox extension</a> for offline browsing, it's worth a shot.

so i'm guessing scrapbook does not do that?

oh well. it's a great extension nevertheless, and thanks again for recommending it, rossman. 🙂

 

[Umberger]

Originally posted by: tami
uh, i'm not sure if the firefox extension "scrapbook" can do it, but it's a pretty darn cool extension. i've never tried it on forums though. rossman may have a better answer as he's used it more extensively than i.

Translation, "I only use it for pr0n." 😉

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: tami

Originally posted by: RossMAN
One of these offline browsers should work.

There may be a https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/">FireFox extension</a> for offline browsing, it's worth a shot.

so i'm guessing scrapbook does not do that?

oh well. it's a great extension nevertheless, and thanks again for recommending it, rossman. 🙂

It's great for individual pages, if you wanted to download an entire forum (or a good chunk) of it then scrapbook isn't the right tool.

 

[Shawn]

that would be a hell of a lot of pages.

 

[tranceport]

I vote printscreen.

 

[FuZoRBlade]

printscreen = hours and hours.. I sinciely hope you were being sarcastic... 😛

 

[FuZoRBlade]

Ok well using Httrack it is possible on some pages, but on the page that i tried it didnt work.