I'm reading up on both, trying to make an intelligent decision which to use.
I'm agnostic about ruby/python, although I have a faint feeling that python may be better. In either
case I have to learn the language.
Does anyone care to venture an opinion? Flame war anyone?
David
PS:
I've
Hi Folks,
how hard/easy would it be to get something written which could log onto
one IP.Board forum, crawl that site and download the content only, to
import into another IP.board db?
So users, forums, threads, PM's, user galleries, etc.
Assuming one doesn't have access to the DB from the
Well apart from the ethics of ripping off someones forums (unless
they are yours that is)
I mod on a few of forums running IPB (2/3) and you can't get access to
others PMs, even via the admin control panel.
As far as I know you would need access directly into the database.
2009/10/6 Kyle
Just for the record, it is a lost forum of which I have been a long time
contributor. And we now wish to migrate to a new setup. So nothing
diabolical.
But it appears we may be out of luck?
Kind Regards
Kyle
Mark
You could probably scrape stuff using curl, sed etc and dump it into a
file to import into a DB.
But I am not aware of a specific app/script.
2009/10/6 Kyle k...@attitia.com:
Just for the record, it is a lost forum of which I have been a long time
contributor. And we now wish to migrate to a