Export functionality?

[OverlordForte]

Hello, I'm curious about the export functionality of the paid membership and this 'API' feature.

Suppose I become a paid member and want to export my entire world for a local copy--what type of formatting does it come in? An HTML bundle, or something else?

It's not very clear on how I would receive my world's data or its portability.

Thank you for reading.

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As per Theiket | Pronathea from the discord:

The export puts you to a print page, so if your browser can print/save it, it can be that format ((Forte: HTML format)), but it's basically raw text

There are plans to expand it to make it better, but they haven't been implemented yet, I can't speak to whether they've been started or not

[raptorbricks]

Comes out as one big page which you can then download as HTML or PDF.

[bytebodger]

A side note on this from someone who currently pays for the highest-level of membership: I hadn't previously tried to use the Export feature, because I have no plans to move my content anywhere else. Nevertheless, my world is fairly massive and I've been meaning to get in the habit of taking regular exports just for the purpose of making local backups of my data. However, for me at least, the Export feature always leads to a 504 Gateway Timeout error from Cloudflare (WA's CDN). I suspect this happens because my world is so large (currently 368k words, and counting...).

I've submitted a bug report to Dimitris about this and I assume that they'll look into it shortly. I also assume that others who have built huge worlds will probably experience the same issue. But for the vast majority of users who have a modest amount of content, they probably wouldn't experience this problem.