# Guide: View Entire Topic on One Page or Export Topic Content
**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/guide-view-entire-topic-on-one-page-or-export-topic-content/1729
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** guide
**Created:** [February 27, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/guide-view-entire-topic-on-one-page-or-export-topic-content/1729 "2023-02-27T18:02:15Z")
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 6:02pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/guide-view-entire-topic-on-one-page-or-export-topic-content/1729/1 "2023-02-27T18:02:15Z")
Want to get a whole topic into a browser window or document instead of using the standard infinite scrolling with autoloading? That can help with searching, skimming or archiving the text. Here are two options:
## Printable Page
You can press cmd-p (mac) or ctrl-p (windows) to bring up a printable page in a simplified format. Just close the print dialog and the page should still be there, fully loaded and readable in your browser.
You can also print to pdf (at least on mac; I’m not familiar with windows options). And once you have the page in your browser, you can export to pdf, save as html or web archive, view source, copy/paste, etc.
I’m told this displays up to 1000 posts per page. If a topic had more than that, you might be able to print multiple pages to pdf to get everything. (I don’t have a long enough topic to test it.)
### Print Page URL Construction
You can also get the print-formatted page by constructing a url.
Example topic:
[https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliot-shares-links-2022/464/10](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliot-shares-links-2022/464/10)
The parts of the url are separated with slashes. After the topic name you will see one or two numbers. The first is the topic id and the second, if present, is the post number within the topic. Make this url:
[https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliot-shares-links-2022/464/print](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliot-shares-links-2022/464/print)
It’s “print” after the topic id number, with no post number.
If a topic has more than 1000 posts, you can add a page parameter to the url to get later pages. You can get multiple documents that way and combine them yourself. Example:
[https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliot-shares-links-2022/464/print?page=2](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliot-shares-links-2022/464/print?page=2)
(That will give an error because there aren’t enough posts, but it should work if a topic has over 1000 posts.)
## Markdown Post Exporting
You can get a page with markdown-formatted posts using URL construction.
Example topic:
[https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliot-shares-links-2022/464/10](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliot-shares-links-2022/464/10)
The parts of the url are separated with slashes. After the topic name you will see one or two numbers. The first is the topic id and the second, if present, is the post number within the topic. Make this url:
[https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/raw/464](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/raw/464)
It’s “raw” then the topic id without the “t”, topic name or post number.
It’s paginated with 100 posts per page. To get later pages do:
[https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/raw/464?page=2](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/raw/464?page=2)
In this case, the topic is quite long, so there are 3 pages, which you could combine in a text editor to get one document. (Post numbers go up to 243 but some posts were moved to other topics, so the first page contains 100 posts and goes up to #119.)
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 6:04pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/guide-view-entire-topic-on-one-page-or-export-topic-content/1729/2 "2023-02-27T18:04:26Z")
There is a plugin to add a visible “print” button in the UI so you don’t need to know the hotkey or do URL construction. I am saving it here in case I want to install it in the future:
> **[GitHub - discourse/discourse-topic-print-component](https://github.com/discourse/Discourse-topic-print-component)**
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> Contribute to discourse/discourse-topic-print-component development by creating an account on GitHub.
But I think it’s unnecessary so I won’t install it now.
Also I got info from:
> **[How to print or export very long topics](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-print-or-export-very-long-topics/223138)**
>
> In my Discourse forum I have some very long topics and I can’t find a way to either print them or export them to other formats (like MS-Word for example). These are the ways I have tried but without success: Print from the browser: only a...
And I asked about this at:
> **[Export document with all content from one topic?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-document-with-all-content-from-one-topic/256411)**
>
> I’m looking for a way – setting, plugin, external script, anything – to get all posts from one topic into a single document (markdown, pdf, html, anything is fine). Are there any options available? Even if it lost some formatting and images this...
PS You can pick “print” from a menu (“file” menu on mac), and then print to pdf, but it doesn’t bring up the print-formatted page the way using the hotkey does.
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 6:08pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/guide-view-entire-topic-on-one-page-or-export-topic-content/1729/3 "2023-02-27T18:08:14Z")
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### Author:  [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/guide-view-entire-topic-on-one-page-or-export-topic-content/1729/4 "2023-02-27T18:25:42Z")
Using the command line, you can quickly get and combine multiple markdown pages. Example:
Create an empty folder and navigate to it:
`mkdir md-dl; cd md-dl`
Download all 3 pages:
`wget https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/raw/464\?page\={1..3}`
Combine:
`cat 464* > combined.md`
Downloading extra pages is OK; they just end up blank. But I think the pages will end up out of order if there are more than 9 because, in alphabetical order, 10 comes before 2.