Download your phpBB forum posts with phpBB-extract
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 3:21 pm
As Alex revealed not long ago, I had written a few years back at his request (and expense) a little script to extract and retrieve a user's posts from a phpBB-powered board such as Genius Forum, and as I explained in that thread, it's basically a web scraper. The problem was, it was a command line script, which made it awkward to share with others, because a user had to have PHP installed on their machine, and had to fiddle around with a settings file. So, I finally got around to spinning off and offering a web version.
You can now retrieve all of the posts of any specified (non-banned) user through the phpBB-extract page on my website. Other than Alex and Katy (now going by "Dani"), you are the first people I've revealed this URL to - I haven't even linked to it from my home page yet. I'm very interested in feedback - what you think works, what doesn't work, what could be worded/worked better, etc. After following up on your feedback, I will feel more confident in the "advertising" of this resource.
I do hope that this script is useful to the phpBB community.
Cheers,
Laird
You can now retrieve all of the posts of any specified (non-banned) user through the phpBB-extract page on my website. Other than Alex and Katy (now going by "Dani"), you are the first people I've revealed this URL to - I haven't even linked to it from my home page yet. I'm very interested in feedback - what you think works, what doesn't work, what could be worded/worked better, etc. After following up on your feedback, I will feel more confident in the "advertising" of this resource.
I do hope that this script is useful to the phpBB community.
Cheers,
Laird