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[–] 45 points 1 year ago*

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    It's a wonderful extension. Wish it played nice with the Just Read extension, but that's my only complaint.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Cool. But also, https://offpunk.net/

    This is not really for your average super-busy html page, but I love it for checking blogs.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I use httrack for this type of thing.

    HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser https://www.httrack.com/html/fcguide.html

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year 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 but this can. (i.e. this works better on crappy modern sites that need JS to even just load the article text...)

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I use this to save webtoon chapters ☺️

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Really useful extension.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't most browers offer this as a default option?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    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...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    you know, browsers used to do this natively...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How does this improve on "Print to PDF" built into every browser and/or OS?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Works like a charm

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Try to avoid installing extensions, they have too much privilege in the browser.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    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. If anything most interfaces are way too heavy these days. 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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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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