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A browser extension that captures web pages to local device or backend server for future retrieval, organization, annotation, and edit. This project inherits from legacy Firefox add-on ScrapBook X.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 2 stories, 8 comments · first 2017-09-27 · latest 2026-02-15

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  1. On the subject of SingleFile there is also WebScrapBook: https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook I prefer it because it can save without packing the assets into one HTML file. Then it's easy to delete or hardlink common assets.
    comment by ninalanyon · 2026-02-15 · in Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format
  2. Also WebScrapBook: https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook
    comment by kwhitefoot · 2024-04-14 · in Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown
  3. And WebScrapbook https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook . I use WebScrapbook instead of SingleFile because it can save the component parts (fonts, images) separately so I can save space by hard linking identical files.
    comment by kwhitefoot · 2024-01-18 · in Portable Web Documents – An Alternative to PDF Based on HTML5 (2019)
  4. What about its successor https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook ?
    comment by ArmandGrillet · 2020-02-19 · in Sorted – a new web extension to organize bookmarks for Firefox
  5. This is interesting. I've been using https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook since firefox changed their addons. It also saves web pages in a zip file but names them with a .htz extension. I saved this page with both webscrapbook and…
    comment by jccalhoun · 2019-11-03 · in SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP hybrid files
  6. Do you know about Web ScrapBook, a WebExtensions successor to ScrapBook X? https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook
    comment by disillusioned1 · 2018-05-02 · in Medium tries to prevent people reading deleted articles on the Wayback Machine?
  7. …the files it generates? It seems to have a lineage (via Scrapbook X) that descends from ScrapBook. https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook
    comment by leoedin · 2017-11-14 · in Firefox 57.0 Released
  8. Seems there is a port in work: https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook
    comment by PurpleRamen · 2017-09-27 · in Tree Style Tabs Extension Ported to Firefox 57