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by genewitch 823 days ago
"save as [single] html" or whatever hasn't worked reliably in over a decade. I wrote a snapshotter that i could post in a slack alternative "!screenshot <URL>" and it would respond (eventually) with an inline jpeg and a .png link of that URL. As i mentioned upthread, this worked for a couple of years (2017-2020 or so) and then it became unreliable on some sites as well. as an example, old.reddit.com hellthread pages would only render blank white after the first couple dozen comments.

I haven't had the heart to try it with singlefile, but now that there's at least 3 tools that claim to do this correctly, i might try again. This tool, singlefile (which i already use but haven't tested on reddit yet) and archivebox. 4 tools, if you count the WARC stuff from archive.org