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.
mbox would be perfect. You can use Gnus or rmail to view them.