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Ask HN: How can I back up an old vBulletin forum without admin access?

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    #Software Development #Software Development Tools #Web Development Tools 2401 social mentions

  2. News for nerds, stuff that matters. Slashdot (aka /.
    It has been a VERY long time since I've done this with `wget`, but here's what I pulled out of my notes. I used to use this to mirror Slashdot when I was travelling for work and had limited/no internet: ``` <pre><code> wget --ignore-length --no-remove-listing --no-check-certificate --recursive --page-requisites --span-hosts --convert-links --no-verbose --tries=3 --timeout=60 --level=1 --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0" --html-extension --exclude-directories=my --directory-prefix="./slashdot/" -e robots=off --cookies --load-cookies slashdot-cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies http://slashdot.org/.

    #Social Networks #Social News #Forums 13 social mentions

  3. The open-source, self-hosted internet archiving solution
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    • Free
    I guess your best chance is to use something like https://archivebox.io/.

    #Bookmark Manager #Bookmarks #Utilities 82 social mentions

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