SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file
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Author here, it makes me really happy to see SIngleFile on the front page of HN. Thank you! I take the opportunity to make you aware of the upcoming impacts of the Manifest V3 [1], and for those who prefer zip files, I recommend you to have a look here [2]. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile-Lite [2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ
I was working on a trick to save files in a more compact way by taking advantage of UTF-16 encoded HTML files. I have an example HTML files on my website here: https://www.dwedit.org/files/test.html (Tip: type "codeText" into the JS console to see the second-stage loader. First stage-loader is in clear text in the source) It's storing a 64479 byte JPEG into 64680 bytes of UTF-16 text, for around 0.2985% expansion. The decoder isn't size-optimized right now (there's even comments in…
Has anyone combined this with a crawler to download an entire website? It seems to be outside the scope of this project, but being able to export an entire website into a single file sounds useful
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- Total points
- 1086
- Total comments
- 288
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-17 | SingleFile: Web Extension for saving a complete web page into a single HTML file | gildas | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-02-29 | Browser extension and CLI tool to save a complete webpage as single HTML file | Santosh83 | 2 | 1 |
| 2022-03-02 | SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML fileFirst breakout · Best thread | crbelaus | 958 | 240 |
| 2024-12-21 | Singlefile: A web extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML fileLatest 20+ point return | throw0101a | 122 | 47 |