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Suggestions wanted re: Saving/archiving web pages (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys, so it seems that Linkwarden isn't as good as I was hoping, since some websites will throw up a cookie popup or some other screen that basically prevents the capture.

Firefox Screenshot seems to work well, but it saves a PNG, which isn't really text searchable.

FF's "save page as..." feature seems to break things when viewing them back.

Save to PDF is another option, and that seems to be decent.

I'm not looking to copy entire websites, but I like to save web pages for later reference (i.e. instructions/specs).

I use Synology Note Station, but they don't have a web clipper for Firefox...

I'm fine with using a folder structure to store files, despite not being totally ideal when compared to Linkwarden.

Does anyone have any other suggestions that perhaps I've missed? Nothing too complicated... ideally, as simple as a button click would be great.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you familiar with the SingleFile browser extension? “It helps you to save a complete web page into a single HTML file.” This includes images.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for!! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

uBO could help with cleaning up the site

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Oh and ViolentMonkey for when you want to do something automatically on the site before saving it. A little JS knowledge is required for that, but there's plenty of userscripts and multiple "stores" of them to get some inspiration

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I just learned about this FOSS option: https://linkwarden.app/

Looks really good.

Edit: Oops. Something to watch: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/138

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I use WebScrapBook on LibreWolf. It let you choose between saving to single html, maff and htz. I prefer the htz format where resources are stored next to the page in an archive. It can also be viewed natively by Firefox-based browsers using the URI scheme jar:file:///home/me/somepage.htz!/index.html.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Save Page WE extension, i think better than singlefile because much more configurable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

OP has started with that in the first sentence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Save to PDF is another option, and that seems to be decent.

If that is a decent option, why are you searching for another tool?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's always something better 😂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Fair enough. Nothing against research and improvement. :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

https://wallabag.org