New Extractor Idea: `forum-dl` for downloading forum threads as JSON/html

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https://github.com/mikwielgus/forum-dl

pip install forum-dl

Supports: Discourse, Hacker News, Hyperkitty, Hypermail, Invision Power Board, PhpBB, Pipermail, Proboards, Simple Machines Forum, vBulletin, Xenforo

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Related new extractor ideas, bumping these to keep them fresh in my mind:

• New Extractor Idea: gallery-dl for image gallery downloading #51
• New Extractor Idea: podcast-archiver for auto-downloading podcasts #53
• New Extractor Idea: scihub-dl to auto-detect inline DOI numbers and download academic paper PDFs #42
• New Extractor Idea: Find/write a "cad-dl" to save 3d assets, gltf files, CAD files, shapefiles, STLs, VR views, etc. #22
• New Extractor Idea: aria2 with bittorrents link/FTP/SFTP/Metalink download support #38

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More in the future here: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/wiki/Roadmap#new-extractors-planned

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This is now implemented and shipped in abx-dl and archivebox/archivebox:dev:

• https://archivebox.github.io/abx-plugins/#forumdl