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📣 sqwrell

How do you save web page content


I have been saving web page content over the years in various ways. Plain text, print as PDF's, etc etc.

How do you all do it.

For example - if we wanted to save this web page locally how would you do it?

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=368501

It's a long nicely formatted, color web page that I would not want to save as a text file. I used to just bookmark these things, but then when I want to go back (sometimes a couple years later) the web page is 404.

I am testing this https://historio.us but it's not free and I can't save my own data on my own hard drive.

I guess I would save that as a PDF but I was wondering how everyone else manages a knowledge base of which the source are web pages.

What we need is a version of historio.us that runs locally.


  👤 perilunar Accepted Answer ✓
If it's a news article I'll just select the content I want and paste it into Notes.app. Otherwise there is so much crap you don't want copied as well.

If I specifically want the whole page, I'll save as "Web Page, complete" in Chrome or Firefox. You have to test them though (some sites won't work properly), and I usually can't resist going into the _files folder and deleting half of them - especially tracking scripts.

Chrome's "Web page, Single File" and Safari's "Web Archive" save options both work well, but the resulting file will only open in the same browser.



👤 lifesaverluke

👤 elektor
I use 'save to Wayback Machine' and SingleFile.