Save complete thread for offline view

[Krypt0n1te]

Hi Guys

Desperately need some advice on how to save a complete multipage thread on a hdd to keep backed-up.

There's one or two REALLY important threads that I would like to save, and I'm really scared that they might get deleted or something like that.

Coud you guys PLZ show me in the right direction?

Have a great week ahead!

 

[LazyLion]

well, you got three options ... all of them have drawbacks...

1) you can save each page of the thread as an image... use the screengrab add-on (extension for firefox). But you have to do this for every page. You then have a static image of each page as it existed in the past.
2) you can save each page as a complete Web page in Firefox or MSIE. The MSIE complete web page packages will zip all the images into file as well... but you can only open them in IE. Firefox creates a web page that it saves with an associated paired folder in which it stores all the images. Again, you have to do this for each page of the thread.
3) You can create/program a script that will go and fetch each page and archive it using one of the above methods... but you need some skill at programming.

 

[AvatarS]

If it's not TK-long, why not change your use settings to display the max posts per page (mine is set at 30; not sure if that's the max), and print each page to PDF, then do a PDF merge.
That way, you can text search through it as well if need be.
If it's just a few threads, this way shouldn't take you too long.

 

[LazyLion]

If it's not TK-long, why not change your use settings to display the max posts per page (mine is set at 30; not sure if that's the max), and print each page to PDF, then do a PDF merge.
That way, you can text search through it as well if need be.
If it's just a few threads, this way shouldn't take you too long.

Ah... I knew there was an option I was missing. A PDF file is a good idea... and you can then merge all the pages into one massive PDF file... and if you use the right PDF creator you can even keep the text and links intact.

 

[Krypt0n1te]

Garyvdh and AvatarS

Thx for the input, really appreciate it!

Wish I could go for Gary's option 3, because its a 110page thread! But I will check if I can up my post per page in order to reduce the pages and the export to pdf.

thanks!

 

[Browser]

Could try Offline Explorer. Last I used it, it seemed to be able to save any pages/sites except for pages generated server side such as search results.