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Topic OP
"Show All" on long topics
by
LoyceV
on 20/02/2019, 21:44:55 UTC
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The reason
This topic: Thread printing got me thinking:
"Show all" is so convenient to CTRL-F something.

Scraper
I made a script that scrapes all posts from a thread, and uploads it as one page to loyce.club/showall/

How to use it
1. Get the topic ID from the URL. I'll use 5102296 as an example.
2. Post the following link, but replace the topic ID by the one you want: http://loyce.club/showall/5102296.html on any public board, so my scraper can find it. This has to be a new post, edits are ignored.
3. Wait a bit (about 10 seconds + 7 seconds per page)
4. Click the link you created
5. Feel free to delete your post again

The link created at #2 is not an archive: any new request will overwrite it. If you want, you can archive it.

Bugs
Probably, it was a quick job Cheesy Please post them here.

Limitations
I scrape a maximum of 500 pages per topic (sorry Wall Observer). I can increase this if needed, but this is probably enough to kill your browser already.
During scraping, all new requests are ignored. I didn't account for multitasking. If someone else occupies my scraper, you'll have to post your request again a bit later.
There's an additional 2 minute delay between requests.
Don't quote this post!



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