It also works with JavaScript-heavy websites like Mastodon and Youtube, though some features like collapsibles are missing.
Am I missing something? How is this different from CTRL+S
YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save a page into a single HTML file.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
https://www.getsinglefile.com/
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pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
oOAlteredBeastOo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I use httrack for this type of thing.
HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser www.httrack.com/html/fcguide.html
e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
This takes a snapshot of the HTML elements from when they were loaded in your browser. If the page loads content dynamically, HTTrack won’t save it. (i.e. this works better on crappy modern sites that need JS to even just load the article text…)
oOAlteredBeastOo@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Tested SingleFile today. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Don’t most browers offer this as a default option?
3abas@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A property secured site won’t serve its css and js when requested from a non configured domain (such as localhost), so the html is the only part that will work when you save the page as.
Atomic@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Selecting “Save as” is not the same as “view while offline”.
“Save as” is just a legacy function that has been passed down to Save the HTML into a file. It’s not used to “save” pages or sites to view offline.
The ability properly Save a page to view offline is already included in most browsers. Even Edge has that functionality built into it.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Cool. But also, offpunk.net
This is not really for your average super-busy html page, but I love it for checking blogs.
emilygage@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Really useful extension.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It’s a wonderful extension. Wish it played nice with the Just Read extension, but that’s my only complaint.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 2 weeks ago
How does this improve on “Print to PDF” built into every browser and/or OS?
e0qdk@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
It stores the actual HTML structure and assets, so you can still view the page as it was more-or-less intended instead of it getting split up across print pages.
borax7385@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Try to avoid installing extensions, they have too much privilege in the browser.
errer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Check your privilege, SingleFile!
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Hmm but they’re so useful.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
What’s the use case? I can’t imagine why I would want to save the interface on a YouTube page, or any similar interactive page. If anything I’d just want the relevant media or text.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
That’s a good use case.
onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I can’t imagine why I would want to save the interface on a YouTube page
Archiving a community post, for example.
danekrae@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 weeks ago
What’s a “youtube”?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
you know, browsers used to do this natively…
Allero@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Post text elaborates on it. Standard Save page option commonly fails to preserve JavaScript elements.
floo@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
Aww— leaky Nazi cunt has a cry cry
Kill yourself
throws_lemy@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I use this to save webtoon chapters ☺️
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I use this to save the job listing of every job I apply to, for reference when I get a call back and the listing has been taken down. You can highlight a section of the page and it smartly saves just the page content needed to contain the highlighted portion. Really keeps the size down.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 weeks ago
You can also use it to save directly to Karakeep if you are behind a locked site and Karakeep can’t archive it for you.
luipaard0011@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Works like a charm
goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
that’s cool. also you can use stuff like htrack to backup web pages and make them into zim files for software like kiwix
renzev@lemmy.world 45 minutes ago
Also recommending ArchiveBox – it takes the shotgun approach to archiving websites, making snapshots with a bunch of different tools, singlefile being among them. You can use it as a one-shot command, or run it as a web server which provides a UI for archiving web pages. Linkwarden is similar.