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Subject: Further help with saving forum threads please
Author: Jp
Date: 01/25/2013 15:02
 
Hi. Thank you for offering this fantastic software.

Am a member of a vBulletin forum that has an uncertain future. Many members
have threads that span several hundred pages and would like to mirror their
threads to HD for backup. The threads are largely image based. The source of
the thread images fall into 3 main areas: attachments, images stored locally
in forum member galleries and linked into the threads & images stored
externally on sites like PhotoBucket.

I've tested the following command line on some smaller threads and am able to
capture the text content while preserving the thread & page structure.
Excellent start but no images.

+*.gif +*.jpg +*.png +*.tif +*.bmp
-* +*showthread.php?t +*=245003* +&page=*

I tried the "get non-HTML files related to a link" option and tried various
settings in the external depth control but still no luck for external images
like PhotoBucket.

I applied the following suggested format to the web address using the relevant
details but still could not get attachments.

<http://john:mypassword@www.example.com/private/page.html>

So, further reading and searching led me to remove the -* from the beginning
of line 2 of my original command line. Am now able to get a test thread
complete with external pictures but it seems to be also downloading "half the
internet" and I have to cancel it.

What should I use to just get the thread core of text, attachments, local
images and external images?
Thanks, JP.
 
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