Does this archiving tool... exist?

[winnielinnie]

Does anyone know of browser extension that essentially does the following?

With the press of a button, a webpage (and its resources) are immediately downloaded.​

• Preferably, no prompt to select a folder (it just immediately downloads it)
• Preferably, as a single file (but multiple files within its own folder is fine too)
• Preferably, the file/folder is named according to the page's title
• Optionally, the file/folder is timestamped

Rationale
I want to be able to go beyond "bookmarking" a webpage.
I want a local copy. (Technically, saved on my NAS via SMB, but appears as a local folder to my web browser.)
I don't want to rely on a remote archive (such as Archive.org or Archive.today).

I'm familiar with other tools, such as curl, wget, httrack, as well as the "Save Page WE" browser extension. None of these suffice, since they lack the "click-and-go" feature.



I'm looking for something that's as quick and convenient as bookmarking a page, with the end result being a local copy of a fully readable webpage.


* Save Page WE fulfills my requirements, except that it requires multiple clicks and steps, and prompts you where to save the file. It also uses a random filename for the downloaded file.

 

[Davvo]

Yes there was one a few years ago, can't recall the name. I believe you can also do the same with Firefox iirc.

 

[winnielinnie]

As a click-and-go solution?

1. View page
2. Click button
3. Continue your browsing as normal

A fully readable version of the page now exists locally, without a bunch of .js, .css, and objects littering the folder?

 

[somethingweird]

Greasemonkey maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greasemonkey

or bookmarklets https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet - damn that old school.. I haven't created one in a long time.

the bigger problem is getting around the browser security features.. heheh - developer/users don't want things to happen without user intervention or dialog - huge security risk.

 

[somethingweird]

Save as PDF?

 

[dak180]

@winnielinnie if you have a mac; in Safari: File --> Save As and Web Archive for format.

 

[winnielinnie]

Save as PDF?

File --> Save As and Web Archive for format.

These don't allow a one-click "fire and go" method.

Not only will it bring up a file dialog, but I'll have to browse to the location. (Since the browser will bring up the last used folder.)

 

[Apollo]

Does anyone know of browser extension that essentially does the following?

With the press of a button, a webpage (and its resources) are immediately downloaded.​

• Preferably, no prompt to select a folder (it just immediately downloads it)
• Preferably, as a single file (but multiple files within its own folder is fine too)
• Preferably, the file/folder is named according to the page's title
• Optionally, the file/folder is timestamped

Rationale
I want to be able to go beyond "bookmarking" a webpage.
I want a local copy. (Technically, saved on my NAS via SMB, but appears as a local folder to my web browser.)
I don't want to rely on a remote archive (such as Archive.org or Archive.today).

I'm familiar with other tools, such as curl, wget, httrack, as well as the "Save Page WE" browser extension. None of these suffice, since they lack the "click-and-go" feature.



I'm looking for something that's as quick and convenient as bookmarking a page, with the end result being a local copy of a fully readable webpage.


* Save Page WE fulfills my requirements, except that it requires multiple clicks and steps, and prompts you where to save the file. It also uses a random filename for the downloaded file.

Archive.org use its own web crawler which is open source it seems:

1. Introduction

 

[dak180]

These don't allow a one-click "fire and go" method.

You may be forgetting that Safari, being a good mac app, is fully scriptable (including saving with no additional user input) via Apple Script; which means that you could get your script into the script menu at which point you can assign it a custom shortcut key combo. You may even be able to find a script someone else has written for this (I have not looked).

 

[somethingweird]

if you make a bookmarklet version of this start code (need much more work afterwards)

Code:

var div = document.createElement('div');
div.innerHTML = '<a style="text-decoration: none;color: inherit;" onclick="this.href=\'data:text/html;charset=UTF-8,\'+encodeURIComponent(document.documentElement.outerHTML)" href="#" download="page.html" id="somethingweird">Download</a>';
document.body.appendChild(div);
document.getElementById('somethingweird').click();

one click save as "page.html" but you can change that to whatever you want.

it's one click - but doesn't save image/css offline.

if you don't know how to make a bookmarklet - use this generator https://mrcoles.com/bookmarklet/

for images.. you have to convert them to data uri - to get them offline.