How to print a full thread

[Djeross]

Hi,
I'd like to save the full content of a thread, given the awesome content, so that I have it for reference in case something happens to this forum (like it seems it already happened once).
In ancient times, there was a button on each thread of nearly any forum provider to print a thread, that would open a page with the full thread "unrolled", which could then be printed / saved as a pdf.
I've been searching for this here, but either I need a change of glasses, or it doesn't exist. Maybe is there some kind of magic URL suffix or something ?
Any suggestion @Patrick ?

Thanks for your help.
Regards.

 

[kapone]

Umm…this is the interwebs….we’ve forgotten how to print…however…

Wayback Machine

Just save it?

 

[Djeross]

Just save it?

Thanks for the suggestion.
However, time learned me that everything on the web might disappear one day... hence the need to save it locally, as PDF for instance.
Funny, the thread I'd like to export is the Brocade one, with its 514 pages, you participated in a lot.
I'm at page 141, feeling tired. But once every few page I find some golden nuggets.

One thing I also wanted to try is to feed a local LLM with the whole thing, and try to automagically extract those nuggets, but that's a little ambitious.

 

[BlueFox]

Append "page-[#]" to the URL and wget the lot. Pretty straightforward.

 

[Djeross]

Append "page-[#]" to the URL and wget the lot. Pretty straightforward.

Thanks, I did see the format used, but I'd like to avoid the "paged" format.
Anyway, it seems my last resort would be to indeed script that for every page.
Would you know of any URL parameter that would allow to get more posts per page ?

 

[BlueFox]

XenForo has many options, but they have to be exposed by an administrator. If you want a singular page, can extract each post and concatenate them yourself. Each element (<article>) is sequential on the page, so append the lot. There may already exist some tools that will do this for you, but if not, shouldn't be too bad in PowerShell, Python, bash, anything else you might prefer.