Comment on YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save a page into a single HTML file.

nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is youtube what people see as “the internet” nowadays? There are millions of websites out there with unimaginable troves of valuable information that isnt available anywhere else. When you actually do anything productive like research, art, engineering, cooking, etc. you often look for very specific info and when you find it you might want to archive it, because websites constantly just disappear forever, never to be seen again. Preserving the exact formatting is often very important too.

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  • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This doesn’t answer my question. There were two examples given in the OP, YouTube and Mastodon (which I don’t use).

    Research, engineering, and cooking are all things I do and I can’t think of a case where I’d want to save all the Javascript on a web page. Usually saving a media file, or a pdf, or copy/ pasting text, or at most a screenshot is perfectly fine.

    What do you end up using this for?

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    • kjetil@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Probably youtube is just a bad example in this case. But javascript heavy pages were regular SaveAs doesn’t really work definitely exist, and the value is in preserving those websites information and formatting

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      • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What websites?

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I use it to save Reddit comments. I use RES enhancement, which lets me get all the comments on one page, then I save it. That ensures I get all of the images, and comments in one easy to reference file.

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  • nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s a good use case.

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• onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I can’t imagine why I would want to save the interface on a YouTube page

  Archiving a community post, for example.

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• danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just listened to an audiobook, where the author constantly said “you can find a free example of this on the website”, but the material is no longer available on the website. At least not for free.

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What’s a “youtube”?

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