Greetings!
I have 2 related knowledge bases that I have been working on for a long time which I would like to download for my portfolio. I reduced the size of one by 5/6, and the other by 4/5, in addition to very very heavy ease-of-use editing . It is a substantial improvement, and what I want to market myself to do, if I have to keep working. I actively enjoy doing it.
My company will not approve the third party backup application for zendesk (the host of these kbs) and I don’t know how to write a script to back it up or anything. I don’t know how any of that works, but zendesk recommends a python script.
I checked a few indexers and couldn’t find the pages, but even if it was indexed by url, I can’t really go through and download individual page links, so I’m not sure what to do. I don’t know python, or anyone who knows Python.
For context, the project as a whole has been my world for the last 9 months, it’s not what I was hired to fix explicitly, which is why they dgaf about my portfolio, but it’s what I want to do (and I’m great at it, even have a degree for it!). I want a snapshot of the whole thing on my last day, ideally including the archived articles I got rid of.
Any ideas for someone who doesn’t code?
If you have a linux machine, wget can create a mirror copy of a website but it does require following the URLs. While you are still there, do you have the access to make a direct copy of the database and the back-end code that drives the website?
As an alternative that might help show the changes you have made, if this page is exposed to the internet then you could check the internet archive, which will have snapshots from different dates that could provide a comparison of the changes.
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Yeah I figured the solutions wouldn’t be quite that easy since you were here asking, but sometimes it helps to get the simple ideas out of the way first so others can come along with better methods. Good luck on your search!