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I've been trying to archive my forum private messages using Wget (its a custom forum server, so i cant just click "export all messages" like you can in phpbb). As a result, they're stuck behind a login page.
This is what I've tried (with username and password taken out for obvious reasons):
wget --save-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --post-data 'user_session_name=foo&user_session_password=bar' http://nanowrimo.org/en/sign_in
wget --load-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies -k -p -m -E -np --output-file=log.txt http://nanowrimo.org/en/messages
The login page is http://nanowrimo.org/en/sign_in and the page I want to archive is http://nanowrimo.org/en/messages (you can't go to this page because you need to be logged in).
It doesn't save the actual page I want, it just redirects to the login page. Am I doing something wrong here?
Tamara Macadam
Posted 2013-09-07T04:14:13.387
Reputation: 63