Downloading entire thread to read later?
- Thread starter Ghudda
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cannarelief
Firefox add on PDFIT! but page by page only
a hack for Vbulletin forums http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65536
maybe some more LEET members will have better solutions
a hack for Vbulletin forums http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65536
maybe some more LEET members will have better solutions
Here's what I did a year or so ago. I copy and pasted the first page of the thread I wanted to save, sent it to my email and made a folder for it. Now only the first page is saved, but clicking on the next page takes me to the thread in ICMag. I hope that helps
thelaughingman
Active member
I use the screen grab plug-in for fire fox.. check it out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/screengrab/
OldSkoolKlein
Active member
Maybe like me, Ghudda wants to read off line. That's the reason I'd seriously look at getting a tablet. As long as it has a PDF reader, it'd be tops to download 10, 20, 50+ page threads, and then read it bits at a time.
Or to learn a new subject, say going from hydro to Organic soil. You can scan through the threads you need to bridge the gap, download, read as needed.
Or to learn a new subject, say going from hydro to Organic soil. You can scan through the threads you need to bridge the gap, download, read as needed.
Kit Kat
Member
I use a few different methods to save ICMag threads (and damn, do I have a lot of them now!):
pinboard.in: pinboard is a really lightweight and fast bookmarking system with tagging and all that fun stuff, they have a lot of bookmarklets so I'll click the 'read later' one so it just saves a thread I'm on, then go back in and tag it with everything about it, like: grow-show, coco, vertical, organic
That doesn't actually save the info to your computer though so the other one I use is...
Evernote: Evernote + Clearly will let me highlight a good post, click the Clearly icon in my browser, and it'll auto-save the formatting, pictures, and everything then give me a link back in my Evernote. I really love using this for the huge threads (like the CMH, defoliation, etc) that have been going for ages and I'll just clip a bunch of posts or nifty bits around for reference so I don't have to re-read all the white noise when I revisit it.
Thread Tools: And finally if you just need text the boring manual way is to click "Thread Tools" at the top of the thread, choose the Printable option, then the max amount of posts on one page, then in your browser choose File -> Save As. Rinse repeat until you have the entire thread. I don't use this very often though because you don't get pictures and it's a pain in the balls.
I also saw a program that says it'll download vBulletin threads for you, and link them all together in one big HTML page with images inline and everything, but it wanted a name/email before you could download and you'd have to enter your login info for it to work on ICMag, so I didn't try it.
pinboard.in: pinboard is a really lightweight and fast bookmarking system with tagging and all that fun stuff, they have a lot of bookmarklets so I'll click the 'read later' one so it just saves a thread I'm on, then go back in and tag it with everything about it, like: grow-show, coco, vertical, organic
That doesn't actually save the info to your computer though so the other one I use is...
Evernote: Evernote + Clearly will let me highlight a good post, click the Clearly icon in my browser, and it'll auto-save the formatting, pictures, and everything then give me a link back in my Evernote. I really love using this for the huge threads (like the CMH, defoliation, etc) that have been going for ages and I'll just clip a bunch of posts or nifty bits around for reference so I don't have to re-read all the white noise when I revisit it.
Thread Tools: And finally if you just need text the boring manual way is to click "Thread Tools" at the top of the thread, choose the Printable option, then the max amount of posts on one page, then in your browser choose File -> Save As. Rinse repeat until you have the entire thread. I don't use this very often though because you don't get pictures and it's a pain in the balls.
I also saw a program that says it'll download vBulletin threads for you, and link them all together in one big HTML page with images inline and everything, but it wanted a name/email before you could download and you'd have to enter your login info for it to work on ICMag, so I didn't try it.
I used httrack to download the Dr. D'Adamo site on blood type food lists.
(It's the only linux native in the list)
I used to have hundreds of megs of CW and OG threads... on an old drive that became corrupted after their downfall. Sure wish I had modern tools back then.
Stay Safe!
(It's the only linux native in the list)
I used to have hundreds of megs of CW and OG threads... on an old drive that became corrupted after their downfall. Sure wish I had modern tools back then.
Stay Safe!
http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html
x86 (32 bit)
x64 (64 bit)
it's cross platform. it works very well. It can grab things like attachments. But use with care, don't set it on the whole dang site, and ensure it uses at least 5 seconds lag between pages or so, to not hammer the servers. With this in mind, should not be worse than you actually clicking pages and such, and lets you save projects. one thread could be a project, and arrange in folders according to subforum (just a for instance).
x86 (32 bit)
x64 (64 bit)
it's cross platform. it works very well. It can grab things like attachments. But use with care, don't set it on the whole dang site, and ensure it uses at least 5 seconds lag between pages or so, to not hammer the servers. With this in mind, should not be worse than you actually clicking pages and such, and lets you save projects. one thread could be a project, and arrange in folders according to subforum (just a for instance).
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AlterEgo860
could not get it to work. need somthing i can rip whole sites for offline viewing, sort of a field guide/knowledge basehttp://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html
x86 (32 bit)
x64 (64 bit)
it's cross platform. it works very well. It can grab things like attachments. But use with care, don't set it on the whole dang site, and ensure it uses at least 5 seconds lag between pages or so, to not hammer the servers. With this in mind, should not be worse than you actually clicking pages and such, and lets you save projects. one thread could be a project, and arrange in folders according to subforum (just a for instance).
also
i hate trying to organize copy and paste
