evenwichtAug 24, 2025

Mirroring a copy of a single webpage for offline viewing using wget is decent but can be rough sometimes. Any other CLI options?

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41003129

Mirroring a copy of a single webpage for offline viewing using wget is decent but can be rough sometimes. Any other CLI options? - SDF Chatter

This is one way to save a webpage from the commandline, which I prefer over launching a GUI browser: wget -E -H -k -K -p $URL Sometimes the result renders great in FF and sometimes not (e.g. ifixit.com [http://ifixit.com] has some layout problems). But even when it works well, I always have to dig around the tree of saved files for the HTML page that renders it all. There is no index.html in the root directory of where things were saved. Is there any other option? I’m aware of two options for saving as PDF (wkhtmltopdf and weasyprint), but that’s a separate discussion. I just wonder if there are other ways to save the HTML in the most reproduceable way… in a way that properly reconstitutes the page in a web browser.

evenwichtAug 19, 2025

wkhtmltopdf is no longer maintained. Is there a successor?

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40711783

wkhtmltopdf is no longer maintained. Is there a successor? - SDF Chatter

The link shows the dying status of the wkhtmltopdf project. Is that the only tool of this sort? I posted [https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/24921531] about this before in [email protected] [/c/[email protected]]. Looks bleak.

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