ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

New Extractor Idea: `forum-dl` for downloading forum threads as JSON/html

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#1,368 opened on Feb 29, 2024

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Description

https://github.com/mikwielgus/forum-dl

pip install forum-dl

Supports: Discourse, Hacker News, Hyperkitty, Hypermail, Invision Power Board, PhpBB, Pipermail, Proboards, Simple Machines Forum, vBulletin, Xenforo

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Research direction
Study existing extractors in ArchiveBox (e.g., youtube dl) and integrate forum dl as a new extractor following the same pattern (install via pip and call the CLI to parse forums into JSON/HTML).
Tech stack
python
Domain
backendapi
Issue type
Feature
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2
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
Pythonpip
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70