I have done the same, to "export" 10s of thousands of pages from a client's Sitecore website where they were in a very adversarial relationship with the incumbe

I have done the same, to "export" 10s of thousands of pages from a client's Sitecore website where they were in a very adversarial relationship with the incumbent Sitecore dev/hosts. I totally don't recommend doing this. But it worked for this case. "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." -- Hunter S Thompson