SingleFile: A Web Extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML file

Re:SingleFile: A Web Extension to save a complete web page i... by maxloh on Saturday December 21, 2024 @04:36PM (#42482534)

An alternative approach would be saving all outbound requests as a HAR file using your browser's DevTools. This captures fetched API responses as well. HAR is a JSON-based format, making it straightforward to inspect.

Unfortunately, there aren't any tools currently for opening a HAR archive directly as a webpage. Perhaps someone could develop one using Electron? (Hold your downvotes – we actually need a full browser environment to render HTML and execute JavaScript. Isn't it?)

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Re:SingleFile: A Web Extension to save a complete web page i... by smittywerben on Sunday December 22, 2024 @03:28AM (#42485091)

Recording all of your SSL-decrypted network logs and reconstructing them later is one step further. I'm sure there's a chain of custody issue not much further.

But what I like about SingleFile is that printing the SingleFile page tends to print to PDF better than an actual dynamic page (annoying modals etc show up in the print that are not normally visible). I have a python service running that organizes my SingleFile html files into folders by each domain and stored my google drive.

It's like a confused mix of wget's -x directories and a postscript printer so you can avoid chrome's print to skia pdf pipeline until a brighter day.

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Re:SingleFile: A Web Extension to save a complete web page i... by stuffoverflow on Sunday December 22, 2024 @01:43PM (#42488216)

I'm pretty sure I've used some tool in the past to convert a HAR in to WARC which can then be browsed with https://replayweb.page/

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