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by animesh 1001 days ago
Yes, had the same realization some months ago. I started building a CLI based tool, smaller in scope, offline first and occasionally online.
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labrador 1001 days ago
I've used HTTrack before. It's handy for downloading entire websites. The resulting pile of html can be converted to text or PDF later for processing

https://www.httrack.com/

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animesh 999 days ago
HTTrack - a name I hadn't heard in 15 years may be. I used it back then. However, I want to clarify that the thing I set out to build is not about entire site backup, but more of site URL and some metadata, but with local-first approach and self-hostable.
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xp84 1001 days ago
How do things like these cope with client-side render websites?

Man, do I miss back when you could “save as webpage, complete” and generally get a working copy. I saved webpages a lot because after all, you might not always be online in those days!

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