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⬛️ GUI/CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file

22 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 4 stories, 18 comments · first 2019-08-23 · latest 2026-10-12

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    Monolith – GUI and CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
    story by snshn · 2026-10-12 · 1 comment
  2. …--dump-dom https://github.com | monolith - -I -b https://github.com -o github.html - [0] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith - [1] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith?tab=readme-ov-file#dynamic-c...
    comment by sunshine-o · 2025-06-08 · in Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your Own
  3. …> Save as PDF-ing somewhat often and that worked pretty well. But just giving a URL is ideal. [0] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
    comment by MattSayar · 2025-03-20 · in Claude can now search the web
  4. …(expectedly) beyond HTTrack's capabilities. At least one other team member wanted to investigate https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith as a potential modern alternative.
    comment by jeff_tyrrill · 2025-03-18 · in HTTrack Website Copier
  5. …LLMs so they can be tagged and summarized and I always have a copy (no bitrot thanks to monolith: https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith ) https://enlace.space/~erik/rss.xml
    comment by be_erik · 2025-02-04 · in Build a link blog like Simon Willison
  6. …[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singlefilez/ [2]: https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith They all have ShowHNs with (probably) many more alternatives in the comments.
    comment by barrettondricka · 2025-01-23 · in DIY Web Archiving Zine
  7. For command line I can recommend `monolith` https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
    comment by betaby · 2024-12-21 · in Singlefile: A web extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML file
  8. I am using monolith to just save the whole page to disk. https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
    comment by yazantapuz · 2024-12-21 · in Is stuff online worth saving?
  9. Cool, but consider monolith for this instead ( https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith ) - Outputs a single .html file, consumable with any web browser on any platform - Rust, so, you know, +1 HN (;D)
    comment by 1attice · 2024-06-04 · in Creating a Safari webarchive from the command line
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    Monolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
    story by iscream26 · 2024-03-24 · 151 comments
  11. …2. Using your cited project specifically, observe the number of "well, save it but ..." options < https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith#options > which is in stark contrast to the archiving goals I just spoke about. It's not a good snapshot of…
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-01-30 · in An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)
  12. …like SingleFile, monolith? [0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/singlefile/mpiodijh... [1] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
    comment by slmjkdbtl · 2024-01-30 · in An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)
  13. You can pipe the URLs through something like monolith[1]. https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
    comment by _dain_ · 2022-03-16 · in Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?
  14. …I was having with bundling pages (and since I wanted a TypeScript API for making page bundles). [0] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith [1] https://github.com/assemblylanguage/humble
    comment by assemblylang · 2022-03-02 · in SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
  15. Similar project -> https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith (I used both and ended up favoring monolith, but can’t remember why. I think they’re pretty comparable/am grateful for both of them)
    comment by didericis · 2022-03-02 · in SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
  16. I gotchu fam: https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith Note: this bundles external resources like images, css and scripts inside the file
    comment by lambdaba · 2021-12-03 · in Show HN: Irchiver, your full-resolution personal web archive
  17. …also written in Rust so I’m sure that will make the source code a bit more accessible for some. [0] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
    comment by wilsonfiifi · 2021-07-10 · in HTTrack Website Copier – Offline browser
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    Show HN: XMPP client app as a single HTML file
    story by snshn · 2020-06-04 · 0 comments
  19. …Monolith. It’s a command line thing. Go check it out and see if it will accomplish what you want https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
    comment by breakerbox · 2019-09-22 · in Ask HN: How to download comments of my favorite submission on HN
  20. These are the install instructions the docs say to use: $ git clone https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith.git $ cd monolith $ cargo install These are the ones I used: $ git clone https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith.git $ cd monolith $ sudo docker…
    comment by mike-cardwell · 2019-08-23 · in Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
  21. https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith/blob/master/src/html.rs#L94 Hope this answers your question (it gets converted to a data URI, and there's apparently no de-duplication).
    comment by chmod775 · 2019-08-23 · in Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
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    Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file
    story by flatroze · 2019-08-23 · 209 comments