Archiving Discourse Threads

With chas small Bash script I snapshot a webpage into ANSI and auto commit in a local Git repo, but when saving a Discourse thread I have to run for each page of it, as the no-JS render shows only 20 items.

I did another small Bash script to help: chasdiscoursethread. It:

• Cleans the URL
• Fetches post metadata to get how many pages
• Runs chas on all pages

Very simple, but saves precious seconds of life while snapshoting pages for later grepping.

Check a demo asciicast in Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/thisago/smallBashScripts/src/branch/master/demos/chasdiscoursethread.cast