Are there any existing plaintext file format to for storing discussion forums posts like this one or ubuntuforums. I want to archive the discussion I like locally. i have been using singlefilez for download the whole page into my machine, but i prefer plaintext formats. When I tried Org-web-tools, it does not seem to properly extract reddit discussion pages for example.

I suppose I can write a scraper and dump content in json format. I’d prefer a plaintext format like org-mode and was designed with some thought put into this, instead of me cobbling something together.

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    10 months ago

    There is nnreddit.

    There is also the RSS feed (add “.rss” to a subreddit’s url). But that only has the posts, not the comments.