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Old 07-18-2015, 09:03 AM   #1
punchy71
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Can I download and save every post I've ever made to Linux Questions forum?


Hello,
Is there a way that I can go to my profile page under "My LQ" and download and save every post that I've ever made on Linux Questions? In other words; download and save locally to my own hard drive all my own personal data, including questions I've posted along with other people's answers to my questions, and any comments I've made to other posts, etc. etc.?
It would be nice if I could, that way I'd have my own FAQ that I could save to my local hard drive that I could refer to from time to time.
Thank you
 
Old 07-18-2015, 10:41 AM   #2
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Do a username search for your own username.

Anything more automated than that? No.
 
Old 07-18-2015, 10:42 AM   #3
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There is currently no "download thread" functionality at LQ. You could save each thread individually using the functionality in your browser, however.

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Old 07-18-2015, 10:55 AM   #4
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File>Print Preview>Print>Print to file

Is how I save online instructional data to pdf format for off line viewing later. I know a custom pet for murga puppy forums exists for what you want. But that does not help for LQ.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy//vi...b62808f0743051

It still requires individual downloading of threads. Sounds like you need a custom wget script to me.
 
Old 07-21-2015, 02:22 PM   #5
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Perhaps in your case yes.

At one point in recent weeks I had the occasion to look back for two reasons (1) because I wanted to recall something from years ago where I had a minor memory of involvement with a similar discussion and (2) someone brought up their absolute first post and I jokingly was going to look at mine.

Well, if I look at my list of posts. I.e. search for posts by me. The absolute last page goes only back to April of this year. But I have a lot of posts. Therefore I wonder how extensive that searching would be. If I search for all of your posts (just did) it found a total of 156 and only needed 3 pages. For me I forget the number it found total, but as I say, it only went to April, 2015. It was 12 pages to the "last" one found for me. So ... you can "now" but hurry up. And then iteratively do that in the future?

Unless I'm mistaken. I don't much do advanced searching, etc. Besides the novelty of knowing what my first few posts were, and trust me they were inept stuff probably, I'd only need to know if one of those posts was involved with a discussion/question which was relevant "now".

EDIT: Looks like it maxes out at 600 total finds. I searched on me and rokytnji and found a list of 600 posts and that's it. If I go to advanced search and do the same by username it also finds just 600. Probably a limitation, and a reasonable one maybe.

Last edited by rtmistler; 07-21-2015 at 02:26 PM.
 
Old 07-21-2015, 03:11 PM   #6
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For resource reasons, searches are currently limited to 600 results. That will go away after the pending code upgrade.

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