Import website content to Confluence

[Philip Deubner]

Dear,

we are using Confluence in quite an extensive way. We came from an old paper and email based world - this is why we are currently trying to pack every use case possible in Confluence.

What we would like to achieve is to have a kind of a self hosted "read-it-later" service like Wallabag, Pocket or so in Confluence. 

The main idea is to have data from the internet at our database - to ensure that this data will be available forever (at least for as long as the project is live).

Unfortunately, I haven't found anything like this on the marketplace. What we wouldn't like to do is to setup a WordPress installation (which has a great plugin called PressForward), as this would divide the knowledge base.

Any ideas so far?

I would be happy for any suggestion.

Thank you in advance,

best regards,

Philip

[James Dellow]

In terms of out of the box functionality, you can use the Shared Links Blueprint to curate links to external web content.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/shared-links-blueprint-407724258.html

[Philip Deubner]

@James Dellow:

Thank you for your suggestion. This is a great thing if you know that you have a rather static link, as the link content is not "imported" into Confluence.

What we are trying to achieve is be rather independent from the web for the content we imported - so even if the link is either changing or vanishing, we would have the content still in our place.

[Thomas Deiler]

Dear @Philip Deubner,

you can do this with Confluence, but it is important to know that for your requirement there is a software class available call Document Management System that much better suits.

Confluence is for team collaboration. Content often change, simultaneous editing, constant restructuring and and social media features. A living thing!

What format types do you import to your Confluence? Plain text, PDF?

So long

Thomas

[Philip Deubner]

Dear @Thomas Deiler,

the idea is to import a website using an URL - like in WallaBag.

So thank you for your suggestion, but an import of files is not quite what I am looking for.

Best regards,

Philip