SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP hybrid files

Re:SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP... by capableweb on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:16AM (#21433978)

The more ubiquitous format in modern times is Web ARChive (WARC[0]) format which is supported by tools like wget, Apache Nutch and organizations like Internet Archive and most national libraries[1]

WARC is also standarized by ISO and has a nice spec that's pretty easy to understand[2]

@gildas I saw there was a comparison table[3] but it seems to be missing WARC. Could you shed some light on why?

- [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_ARChive

- [1] http://digitalia.sbn.it/article/view/1473

- [2] https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/wa...

- [3] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#file-format-com...

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Re:SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP... by gildas on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:24AM (#21434015)

I included in the table only formats that are at least supported natively in one modern browser. That's why the WARC format is missing. I'm not against adding it in the table though.

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Re:SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP... by capableweb on Sunday November 03, 2019 @09:38AM (#21434091)

I see. Thanks for your reply! Yes, to open a WARC file you would need something like https://github.com/webrecorder/webrecorder-player or another viewer[0] but the benefit is that you can now contribute to the webs archiving efforts and just upload the result directly to Internet Archive!

With that said, I do understand your motivation.

- [0] https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_WARC_Ecosyst...

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Re:SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP... by BiteCode_dev on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @03:45AM (#21460733)

Apparently there is an extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/page-archive-...

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