gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
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Web Extension for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file
113 mentions on Hacker News by 66 people: 7 stories, 106 comments · first 2018-07-04 · latest 2026-10-27
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Lots of detailed info in the github repo https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by pvg · 2022-11-17 · in Show HN: SingleFile is finally available on Safari (macOS/iOS) -
…saved. SingleFileZ [2] can also do this and produce full-text searchable archives. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile [2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ
comment by gildas · 2022-10-11 · in Command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving application -
…just some Wiki pages, this browser extension with some automation on top will do the perfect job: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile No affiliation, just a happy user :)
comment by krasi0 · 2022-10-07 · in How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive -
Save webpages offline as HTML (resources inlined, even things like iframes and web components) https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by easrng · 2022-09-29 · in Ask HN: Offline resources during internet outages? -
…a simple annotation editor that allows you to highlight text and add notes in saved pages. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/
comment by gildas · 2022-08-02 · in Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML elements? -
…chrome web store or firefox addon repo, you can download the extension directly from Github. [1]: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by woojoo666 · 2022-06-17 · in Shottr – macOS Screenshot Utility -
It can help indeed! Thanks for the suggestion BTW [1] [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/commit/6c7a2ef1...
comment by gildas · 2022-06-10 · in Write HTML Right -
Example "issue" (feature) from the tracker: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/issues/967 (Also: a huge thank you for creating SingleFile. One of my favourite extensions of all time.)
comment by isp · 2022-06-10 · in Write HTML Right -
You can link it: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile Pretty neat extension!
comment by sph · 2022-06-10 · in Write HTML Right -
I personally save them using the SingleFile browser extension. https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by m-p-3 · 2022-06-01 · in Show HN: An open source alternative to Evernote (Self Hosted) -
…to preserve a page referenced by their text, using a tool like SingleFile is a great first step. https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by voussoir · 2022-04-07 · in Design of This Website (2021) -
…locally, and links rewritten to the local PDF; other URLs, after a delay, call the CLI version of https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile to run headless Chrome to dump a snapshot, which are manually reviewed by myself & improved as…
comment by gwern · 2022-04-07 · in Design of This Website (2021) -
…Then there's also ArchiveBox[2] which can convert your browser history into various formats. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile [2] https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
comment by Farow · 2022-03-16 · in Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever? -
…problems, maybe adjusting css properties a bit. [1] https://github.com/tagspaces/tagspaces [2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by edgartaor · 2022-03-14 · in Show HN: Serve your saved articles to a Kindle -
…and rather than answering on HN I will integrate it in the FAQ. I created an issue for this here: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/issues/885 .
comment by gildas · 2022-03-02 · in SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file -
For anyone else that didn't read the README, MHTML is mentioned in the comparison section https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#file-format-com...
comment by toqy · 2022-03-02 · in SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file -
…is an example of JS code showing how to configure and inject SingleFile with puppeteer [2]. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/tree/master/cli [2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/cli...
comment by gildas · 2022-03-02 · in SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file -
…an approach I myself have used in the past for simplifying the archival of regulatory texts.) [0] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/15801c8ef4...
comment by danielam · 2022-03-02 · in SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file -
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SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML filestory by crbelaus · 2022-03-02 · 240 comments
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…search because, e.g., both macOS Finder and Windows Explorer index HTML files by default. [0] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by lextuto · 2022-02-02 · in Ask HN: How to save bookmarks locally including searchable content? -
A browser extension to archive pages: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by ffe4b5 · 2021-12-23 · in This page is designed to last (2019) -
I'd recommend [SingleFile]( https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile ) for saving web pages, [Obsidian]( https://obsidian.md/ ) for taking notes and [Syncthing]( https://syncthing.net/ ) for syncing between devices. Combining these can…
comment by Farow · 2021-11-24 · in Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021? -
occasionally I use https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by mro_name · 2021-10-10 · in Reading the web offline and distraction-free -
…the context menu of the extension: Auto-save > Auto-save all tabs (or Auto-save unpinned tabs) [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by gildas · 2021-10-05 · in Tab Unloading in Firefox 93 -
SingleFile [1] has some basic options allowing you to archive pages you add in your bookmarks. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by gildas · 2021-08-25 · in Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool -
You can use SingleFile for this, see https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/
comment by gildas · 2021-07-19 · in Deurbanising the Web [pdf] -
There is also SingleFile as a browser extension: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by Gys · 2021-07-10 · in HTTrack Website Copier – Offline browser -
Regarding a library of HTML documents: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#install
comment by rhn_mk1 · 2021-04-05 · in Show HN: PDFs from HTML -
…- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodij... - https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by celsoazevedo · 2021-01-29 · in u/DeepFuckingValue and the GameStop Reddit mania -
…when you bookmark it and eventually replace the URL of the page with the file URI on your disk. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by gildas · 2020-11-11 · in Show HN: Self-hosted offline Internet from your browsing history -
save web page into a complete single file https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by namaljayathunga · 2020-10-03 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite command-line applications? -
…the extension for delegating to a "daemon" (based on the CLI code [1]) the capture of a page. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/tree/master/cli
comment by gildas · 2020-07-31 · in Show HN: A bookmarking tool designed to help synthesize your web research -
You could try the awesome SingleFile extension: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile It might be a good compromise between PDF and plain text. It's pretty nice because it essentially serialises a snapshot of the current DOM tree,…
comment by jannes · 2020-05-18 · in WorldBrain's Memex: Bookmarking for the power users of the web -
…an option for this ("Misc. > save the page of a newly created bookmark") in SingleFile [1]. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/
comment by gildas · 2020-05-11 · in Webrecorder: Make an interactive copy of any web page that you browse -
…that. It will compute the cascade, remove almost all the unnecessary rules, and minify the CSS. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile [2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ
comment by gildas · 2020-05-03 · in Ply: A Visual Web Inspector (2018) [slides] -
…root contents that are missing. It means that JS is required to view this saved page correctly. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by gildas · 2020-03-17 · in Please consider not adopting Google WebComponents -
…do the same but will produce zip files (disguised as HTML files). Disclosure: I'm the author. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile [2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ
comment by gildas · 2020-02-29 · in Archiving Web Sites (2018) -
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Browser extension and CLI tool to save a complete webpage as single HTML filestory by Santosh83 · 2020-02-29 · 1 comment
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…line. It will interpret scripts and faithfully save a snapshot of a page in a single HTML file. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/tree/master/cli
comment by gildas · 2020-02-28 · in Linkalot: A web-based inbox for your links -
…SingleFile weight 250KB and all the pages saved in PDF weight 25KB? I did a quick test by saving https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/issues?q=is%3Ai... and the HTML file generated by SingleFile is almost 3 times smaller than the…
comment by gildas · 2020-01-08 · in Store the proof of a webpage saved with SingleFile in Bitcoin -
…generated (i.e. the "hash" parameter the "anchor" function) and is sent to the API of Woleet. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/ext...
comment by gildas · 2020-01-06 · in Store the proof of a webpage saved with SingleFile in Bitcoin -
For your information, SingleFile can run on Firefox for Android [1]. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by gildas · 2019-12-22 · in Show HN: Local Node.js app to save everything you browse and serve it offline -
…of SingleFile if he could implement a save-on-bookmark feature for SingleFile, and he was amenable: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/issues/320
comment by bloopernova · 2019-12-20 · in This Page is Designed to Last -
…https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodij... https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by fbriff · 2019-12-14 · in Saving web pages as PDFs in 2019, a real challenge -
…to the list which allows you to annotate archive of webpages saved in HTML and is 100% free. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
comment by gildas · 2019-11-27 · in How to annotate everything -
…- [2] https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/wa... - [3] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#file-format-com...
comment by capableweb · 2019-11-03 · in SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP hybrid files -
…repo page there’s a comparison table between different formats that may shed some light in this: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#file-format-com...
comment by mstade · 2019-11-03 · in SingleFileZ, a web extension for saving pages as HTML/ZIP hybrid files -
https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/tree/master/cli
comment by dotneter · 2019-08-23 · in Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file -
…to capture a web page properly is to "execute" it on a browser. Gildas, the guy behind SingleFile ( https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile ) is well aware of that and his approach realy works everytime. Try on a Facebook post, a…
comment by mikaelmorvan · 2019-08-23 · in Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file -
You want this: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/tree/master/cli .
comment by gildas · 2019-08-23 · in Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file