You don't have to have direct access to the database to make useful things such as statistics, new searches, bible, etc. All you need is a script to fetch nodes (i recommend fetching XML versions). 
use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;
use XML::Simple;
use LWP::Simple;

our $URL  = 'http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl';
our $PATH = '/path/to/perlmonks/nodes';

for (0 ... 666666) {
   my $node = get "$URL?node_id=$_&displaytype=xml";
   my $xml = XMLin($node);
   next if $xml->{title} =~ /Permission\s+Denied/i;
   next if $xml->{title} =~ /Not\s+found/i;
   open FH, '>', "$PATH/$_.xml" or die "can't write: $!";
   print FH $node;
   sleep 5; # play nice ;)
}

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Very simple, could use some more work, but this will get the job done. Just be sure and run it during the weekend or other 'less busy' times. ;) I also have some code over at Node XML to HTML that transforms the XML into HTML ... it's not perfect either, but it's a start.

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to (jeffa) Re: Public export of Perl Monks database by jeffa
in thread Public export of Perl Monks database by zby

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