print more than 50 posts on one page

MJB

For saving threads for offline viewing and processing it would be very convenient
to have a much larger number of posts limit in the following link.
I just tried ro manually put in some other number, but it seems to be limited to 50.
500 or evem 5000 would be great and probably be used only ocassionally,
but saving a lot of effort.

http://forums.parallax.com/printthread.php?t=125543&pp=50

the default 50 seems ok to me.

thanks
MJB

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

I think the danger in allowing more is the potential for a bandwidth hit on the server.

-Phil

MJB

Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) wrote: »

I think the danger in allowing more is the potential for a bandwidth hit on the server.

-Phil

printing is a very rare operation compared to viewing ...
would be VERY convenient to be able to just download a complete thread as PDF for offline viewing and fast searching, extracting the jewels ...

Courtney Jacobs

MJB,

In the bottom-right corner of your forums window there is a button labeled "Archive". Click this button and you will see a text list of all of our forums sections. Next, click on the forum of your choice, choose a thread and you will be given a printer-friendly page with all posts from that thread; there is no 50-post limit. Using this method you can work around the limit imposed on our regular forums view, and the archive is updated continuously so its content should be up-to-date.

In regards to your second post, a 'print as PDF' method to save content for offline view is not an option being considered at this time.

mindrobots

MJB, If you don't mind installing node.js on your computer (if you don't have it already), try Heater's nifty node thread scraper. It works great, just pipe it into a file and you have a copy of everything in a thread. See the quote below from Heater's README.md - Read the entire README.md for use details:

Install

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First install node.js. Linux, Mac and Windows node.js downloads are available here: http://nodejs.org/ You can get parallax-scrape from a zip file on github or fetch it as a git repo: $ git clone https://github.com/ZiCog/parallax-scrape.git A couple of node.js modules are required: $ cd parallax-scrape $ npm install request $ npm install htmlparser2

It's cool! Edit: sorry for the buggered up quote - I seem to be having Unix/Win CR/CR/LF issues all of a sudden for some reason! Get it here: $ git clone https://github.com/ZiCog/parallax-scrape.git - read the README.md and you're good to scrape!

MJB

thanks Courtney,
so many buttons everywhere - never saw ARCHIVE.
I just tried
http://forums.parallax.com/archive/index.php/t-125543.html
and it gives 27 pages of content - so maybe more than 50, but still not one document.
OK - this is a very big thread ... ;-)

MJB

mindrobots wrote: »

MJB, If you don't mind installing node.js on your computer (if you don't have it already), try Heater's nifty node thread scraper. It works great, just pipe it into a file and you have a copy of everything in a thread. See the quote below from Heater's README.md - Read the entire README.md for use details: It's cool! Edit: sorry for the buggered up quote - I seem to be having Unix/Win CR/CR/LF issues all of a sudden for some reason! Get it here: $ git clone https://github.com/ZiCog/parallax-scrape.git - read the README.md and you're good to scrape!

thanks, never tried node.js - maybe it gets time to give it a try ...