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Thanks for this project. I found SingleFile a year or two ago, and used it to take "HTML Screenshots" of third party sites I could embed in guided walkthroughs

by mieko 5y ago

Thanks for this project. I found SingleFile a year or two ago, and used it to take "HTML Screenshots" of third party sites I could embed in guided walkthroughs with modified/example data changed, instead of just PNGs. SingleFile was ultra-valuable for this. If anyone has a similar use-case, I wrote some pretty rough (and slow) code to post-process SingleFile's output to remove any HTML that wasn't contributing to the presentational render by launching puppeteer and comparing pixels. It's available here: https://github.com/mieko/trailcap https://github.com/mieko/trailcap

gildas 5y ago
It's interesting! I had started something similar as part of testing but hadn't really finished my work. I will have a look at your project.
MandieD 5y ago
Oh, that’s such a good idea for documentation - thanks for sharing!
bscphil 5y ago
One very useful thing you could add to this (if you feel like it) would be to make it work with snapshotted directories, rather than a single HTML file with inlined data. You can get the former with SingleFileZ and then extracting the resulting zip file. I like these because it makes it easier for me to make manual edits when necessary and it's a better solution for long term archiving (IMO). But I would love to add your project to my workflow.