Scraping a phpBB3 board with Python

Published on January 15, 2018

Recently I was asked to help archive an old phpBB3 forum. At work and at home I am fortunate enough to be able to work with Python. Aside from being accessible and free, those involved with Python often publish thier code which can also be acessed generally under an open licence.

In this particular case I was already familiar with the requests module and while I had heard of the Beautiful Soup module I hadn't yet used it...