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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by throwawaysea on Monday May 18, 2020 @06:09PM (#23228965)
Are you manually printing each page to PDF? I would love to have an automated way to do this but haven't figured out how to deal with logging into subscription based site and all that.

There is also some degree of messiness even with printing to PDF. For example let's say I want to save an HN or Reddit discussion along with the comments - I would need to make sure I capture all the comments that overflow to "More" on HN or are behind a "load more comments" link on Reddit. Is there any elegant way to traverse all that and capture it?

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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by nikisweeting on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:01PM (#23230223)
ArchiveBox.io saves to PDF and to screenshot and WARC, and HTML to avoid issues that PDF alone has, but the feature that allows archiving sites behind a login isn't completely finished yet.
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Re:WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of th... by fit2rule on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @12:58AM (#23231387)
Yes, manually, but as I stated elsewhere: its muscle memory and smooth as an operation for me locally anyway now.

I often go through the archive, find the HN comment PDF's I've created, and then automatically update them to get whatever new comments have occurred in the meantime. Haven't figured out how to navigate to the 'next' comment page automatically though - some pages detect they're being printed and use a print-friendly layout, though, which is nice .. would be cool to see more of that.

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