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Very cool. This seems like such a "Duh. Users want this" feature. I wish it was integrated in Firefox years ago. I bookmark some sites and then come back years
by boredgamer2 6y ago
Very cool. This seems like such a "Duh. Users want this" feature. I wish it was integrated in Firefox years ago. I bookmark some sites and then come back years later, but perhaps they hijacked the URL or they later changed the URL's parameters.
And then when I return, I get a 404. Instead of bookmarking, I'd love to "capture" the current info, divs, and graphics.
- Cymen 6y agoJoplin is a local thing you can run for this. Basically, saving a snapshot of a page. Has browser extensions. https://joplinapp.org/ https://joplinapp.org/ I like the ability to use tags too -- I've got various product/tech ideas and it's nice collecting information with it and not having to worry about the pages going away or changing.
- hanklazard 6y ago+1 for the Joplin web clipper. I really like using Joplin for notes, especially the command line version.
- PenguinCoder 6y agoNot a firefox extension, but I moved to using Polar Bookshelf[0] for exactly this reason. [0] https://getpolarized.io/ https://getpolarized.io/
- milofeynman 6y agoI have been searching for a tool exactly like this. Thank you for sharing!
- pzmarzly 6y agoWhile it's far from an ideal solution, you can throw your bookmarks periodically to archive.org's "Save Page Now!" service. It's easy to semi-automate it - here's how I use it with pinboard.in bookmark exports: https://pastebin.com/uUVE22RD https://pastebin.com/uUVE22RD
- holidaygoose 6y agoThis solution is on the user side, which is great because each person can get and manage saved pages for themselves. But if we're looking for a developer side solution, then making pages that last an order of magnitude longer may be better for everyone in the long run, e.g. https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/ https://jeffhuang.com/designed_to_last/
- terrycody 6y agoarchive.fo is also very good to use.
- zxter 6y agoPinboard [0] has this feature with additional price. Just bookmark and you are done. Later you can text search in their content. [0] https://www.pinboard.in/ https://www.pinboard.in/
- derefr 6y agoDoes it capture your view of the page, though (i.e. use your own browser, with its cookie jar, to do the scrape)? I'd like to, for example, snapshot my Facebook feed.
- jabroni_salad 6y agoNo it does not. That means it also doesnt work for any news sites that you have subscriptions to. Im using the joplin web clipper pretty heavily for this purpose.
- zxter 6y agoTnen check out historysearch [0] If I remember correctly they index your history so it could include your history. You don't even need to bookmark. Of course I cannot vouch for their respect for privacy. [0] https://historysearch.com/ https://historysearch.com/
- ryanfox 6y agoI made an application[0] that does capture your view. It's screenshot-based. It works outside of a browser too - anything on your screen. All local too, so no privacy concerns :) [0] https://apse.io https://apse.io
- _curious_ 6y agoInteresting. How do you/does Apse make $
- oarsinsync 6y agoThe website shows a 'buy' button, and the pricing model.
- gildas 6y agoThere's an option for this ("Misc. > save the page of a newly created bookmark") in SingleFile [1]. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/ https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/
- MacSystem 6y agoAfraid of lose the contents on the page, I used to save it as PDF on cloud. Far from ideal but happened way too much I go back to the page and get a 404 page error or so.
- throwawaysea 6y agoI would love an automated solution for this that is also smart enough to use my logins to access subscription based news sites for archival purposes.
- kordlessagain 6y agoA smart crawler.
- m463 6y agoyou can do this, sort of. web developer menu toggle tools select ... select settings turn on "take a screenshot of the entire page" now you get a camera icon. clicking it snapshots the current webpage (as a veeery tall image)
- MasterYoda 6y agoYou could do that with the Firefox extension "SinleFile" [1]. It main purpose is to save a full webpage as one single html file with images etc encoded in the html file (no more messy html file + folder cluttering), very neat. There is also a variant that is a html/zip hybrid called SingleFileZ [2] that gets smaller saved file. In the settings you could set so that sites you bookmark is saved and also link the bookmark to the saved file locally if you want to. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singlefilez/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singlefilez/
- gardaani 6y agoThat looks great! Firefox should have something like SingleFile built-in. Instead of just copying features from Chrome, they should lead the innovation and add useful features like this.
- renewiltord 6y agoI used this in like IE5 (I think) with MHTML. Though after looking a little, looks like SingleFile is more featureful (gets lazy loaded stuff etc)
- ordinary 6y agoI've been using SingleFile for a couple of months now, to auto-save every page I visit, and it works well. It's exactly as simple as it needs to be. My only real complaints are that it can be slow on large pages and that it pollutes your download history (every auto-save shows up as a download), both of which I suspect are due to limitations in the extension API.
- londons_explore 6y agoIf enough people did this, it would provide more pressure for websites not to just nuke their old URL schemes every time they switch from wordpress to Drupal...
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