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Printing Paywalled Sites (tabs.ultimate-guitar.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I'm trying to find an extension that will allow me to print pages such as the one I've linked. When I attempt to do so, the page goes black and I'm prevented from snagging the content. I've also tried screenshot tools, including a few grab & print style extensions. I've messed around with the inspector console, tried disabling javascript, more or less all of the things you might futz with to circumvent this. No joy.

Does anyone have a solution or tool they use for this? I'd like to have this on paper so I don't have to stare at a screen when I'm playing. (I'm a shit jazz musician and need tab. I blame rock and roll.)

Cheers!

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (9 children)

This might not necessarily be the kind of solution you're looking for but what I would do in this situation is use the web archive plugin to archive the page and then take the archived page and print that out instead.

Does that help?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

    Hmm. Interesting approach. If it works, it works. I'll give it a shot and report back.

    Edit: Unfortunately, this didn't work either.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (7 children)

    Can you share the URL?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    It's in the post itself.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    Alright, I've worked this problem before and this site is specifically designed to make it impossible to do what you're trying to do.

    The next step, I fear, is to load the page with network diagnostics and analyze the traffic with the end of reverse engineering the API. After youve done that, maybe you can download the proprietary file type they use and then try to parse it.

    There's a chance that someone already someone who's done this. I noticed a few fonts for music notation and a bunch of JavaScript.

    From the design elements I see, it's loading some midi file or something like it, again, probably proprietary. I'm outta options.

    Maybe try looking for a website that downloads directly from API or a GitHub that does the same.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago

    Thanks. You went down the same path I have in the past. I was hoping for a solution someone devised, but they did a good job.

    I'm glad you understood my intent here. Screenshot work-arounds are fine, but they are not the best quality.

    I'm also just picking nits at this point. I appreciate the effort. Maybe I can write something up in python that'll snag it.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I got it working. I am going to package up my python script and publish it. It pulls everything visible down and then renders it so TuxGuitar can view the files. I'll update the post when it's been published somewhere.

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