It also works with JavaScript-heavy websites like Mastodon and Youtube, which the standard “Save Page” feature implemented in all browsers usually fails to save, though some features like collapsibles are missing.
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.
Am I missing something? How is this different from CTRL+S
Edit: clicked on link and saw demo video. Pretty cool, saves all images and assets without having that big folder of stuff
I use httrack for this type of thing.
HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser https://www.httrack.com/html/fcguide.html
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 but this can. (i.e. this works better on crappy modern sites that need JS to even just load the article text…)
Tested SingleFile today. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
Cool. But also, https://offpunk.net/
This is not really for your average super-busy html page, but I love it for checking blogs.
Don’t most browers offer this as a default option?
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.
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 to properly Save a page to view offline is already included in most browsers. Even Edge has that functionality built into it.
The ability to properly Save a page to view offline is already included in most browsers. Even Edge has that functionality built into it.
Go ahead and show the classroom what you’re talking about…
Really useful extension.
It’s a wonderful extension. Wish it played nice with the Just Read extension, but that’s my only complaint.
How does this improve on “Print to PDF” built into every browser and/or OS?
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.
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I use this to save webtoon chapters ☺️
you know, browsers used to do this natively…
Post text elaborates on it. Standard Save page option commonly fails to preserve JavaScript elements.
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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.
that’s cool. also you can use stuff like htrack to backup web pages and make them into zim files for software like kiwix
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.
Works like a charm
Try to avoid installing extensions, they have too much privilege in the browser.
Check your privilege, SingleFile!
Hmm but they’re so useful.
