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Re:Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the websi... by kej on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:40PM (#40638744)
Scammers don't need this to copy an existing website, and I could see plenty of legitimate uses. Maybe you're redoing the website but want to keep the previous site around somewhere, or you want an easy way to archive a site for future reference. Maybe you're tired of paying for some hosted CMS but you want to keep the content.
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Re:Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the websi... by meiraleal on Monday June 10, 2024 @05:30PM (#40639371)
All the scenarios you described can be achieved by having access to the source code, assuming you own it.
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Re:Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the websi... by kej on Monday June 10, 2024 @05:41PM (#40639498)
Lots of things are possible with access to source code that are still easier when someone writes a tool for that scenario.
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Re:Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the websi... by meiraleal on Monday June 10, 2024 @05:52PM (#40639603)
Crawling a build you already have isn't one of them
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Re:Show HN: Crawl a modern website to a zip, serve the websi... by p4bl0 on Monday June 10, 2024 @06:21PM (#40639886)
The website in question may be a dynamic website (e.g., WordPress, MediaWiki, or whatever other CMS or custom web app) and you either want a snapshot of it for backup, or you run it locally and want un static copy to host it elsewhere that only support static files.
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