Ask HN: Why saving webpages on hard disk has not got better?

28 pointsby behnamoh5 anni fa12 comments

I use Firefox and every time I try to save a webpage, the first try fails! The second one works, but then the saved file does not look like the one you'd see online. There are workarounds such as *.mhtml extensions, but I wonder why browsers have not got better at saving webpages locally.

I've used Chrome too, same problem.

12 comments

Nikhiil_Rajesh5 anni fa

Try using the [Singlefile](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/singlefile/mpiodij...) browser extension. This is what I typically use and works very well.

ggm5 anni fa

The odd thing is, either in shmem/mmap, or on disk cache, is most of the fetched state. A simple "tee" of the data out of QUIC would replay the load of the disparate mark-up elements.

It's all there. The problem is deciding how to add code to save it in a rational reloadable manner.

Compared to eg ZFS snapshot: low cost copy on write, saved state. (Admittedly of data on disk, which is the goal here, but then the browser cache is on disk)

toomuchtodo5 anni fa

https://warcreate.com/

https://github.com/webrecorder/replayweb.page

ggm5 anni fa

Thanks! I love proof by example.

toomuchtodo5 anni fa

I hope you find it helpful!

asaddhamani5 anni fa

Use SingleFile. It inlines any CSS and images and your saved page will look pretty close to the actual page.

S4M5 anni fa

I use wget (on the command line) to save a webpage. It has an option to save recursively all the links on the page as well, or only the links from a certain domain.

namaljayathunga5 anni fa

I use this to backup pages automatically

https://github.com/i5ik/22120

GekkePrutser5 anni fa

Thanks, I regularly come across cases where I read something interesting but forget to bookmark it. This could really help! I'll definitely try it.

behnamoh5 anni fa

Unfortunately it only works for Chrome-based browsers.

account-55 anni fa

I tend to use singlefile extension.

I am looking for something that saves just the JSON responses from a website. I can see the JSON in devtools network tab but can't extract it. I'm not a webdev so it may be easy I just don't know how it's done.

spsphulse5 anni fa

I'm happy user of Chrome extension called savePageWe