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you know, browsers used to do this natively…
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Submitted 6 months ago by onehundredsixtynine@sh.itjust.works to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Allero@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Post text elaborates on it. Standard Save page option commonly fails to preserve JavaScript elements.
floo@retrolemmy.com 6 months ago
Aww— leaky Nazi cunt has a cry cry
Kill yourself
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months 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 6 months 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.
throws_lemy@reddthat.com 6 months ago
I use this to save webtoon chapters ☺️
luipaard0011@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Works like a charm
goodboyjojo@lemmy.world 6 months 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
vk6flab@lemmy.radio 6 months ago
How does this improve on “Print to PDF” built into every browser and/or OS?
e0qdk@reddthat.com 6 months 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.
oOAlteredBeastOo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I use httrack for this type of thing.
HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser www.httrack.com/html/fcguide.html
oOAlteredBeastOo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tested SingleFile today. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
e0qdk@reddthat.com 6 months 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…)
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Cool. But also, offpunk.net
This is not really for your average super-busy html page, but I love it for checking blogs.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Don’t most browers offer this as a default option?
3abas@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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.
borax7385@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Try to avoid installing extensions, they have too much privilege in the browser.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Hmm but they’re so useful.
errer@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Check your privilege, SingleFile!
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Am I missing something? How is this different from CTRL+S
nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 6 months 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.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 months ago
What’s a “youtube”?
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
That’s a good use case.
danekrae@lemmy.world 6 months 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.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months 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 6 months 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?
emilygage@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Really useful extension.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 6 months ago
It’s a wonderful extension. Wish it played nice with the Just Read extension, but that’s my only complaint.
renzev@lemmy.world 6 months 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.