Produce a static website

[rudolfbyker]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The problem is that it's possible to run a server to view the files, but not to deploy a static website (containing just HTML and CSS (and maybe JS) files) which can be viewed without a server, and/or deployed to a simple nginx server.

Describe the solution you'd like

This should convert the entire workspace archive to a locally-browseable static site.

slackdump convert -o bar -output html foo

Describe alternatives you've considered

Do slackdump view foo and then run a web scraper on that.

[rusq]

Hey @rudolfbyker thanks for the suggestion.

Have you considered running "slackdump view" behind nginx proxy?

[rudolfbyker]

Have you considered running "slackdump view" behind nginx proxy?

Yes, I have, but I want to have many archives together from various times and from various workspaces, which would mean I must run slackdump view for each one of them and create a proxy for each one in nginx. What I would like is to be able to simply copy the new archive's static HTML/CSS/JS files over to the nginx server's docroot, without having to change any settings.

[rusq]

Fair enough, for multiple websites it would be a pain indeed. Good news is that most of the logic is there to generate HTML from source, but HTML templates would have to be tailored for static representation and the directory structure needs to be thought through.

[damccull]

This would be a great feature. An additional use case would be to maintain an easily readable archive without having to host the viewing server, making it easy to send a copy to non-CLI people. It would also allow viewing on executable-constrained environments, like corporate environments where they whitelist allowed software.