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Ask HN: Free or open-source methods to locally archive webpages?

1 pointsby MollyRealizedover 6 years ago
I&#x27;m wondering if anyone knows of a free or open-source way to archive ... ideally to print a full-page PDF screenshot?<p>Native browser screenshot features (Firefox, Chrome) merely captures the page as an image -- no hyperlinks, and text isn&#x27;t searchable by the system. The FirePlot Firefox&#x2F;Chrome extension redirects (and occasionally breaks) the saved URLs unless you pay $40. Printing to PDF doesn&#x27;t preserve the page as is and a site&#x27;s printed stylesheet is often either non-existent or very wonky in terms of capturing page content.<p>I&#x27;m aware of WARC and WebRecorder, but that seems to not be local, and the process is also somewhat more excessively complicated than desired. Archive.is and other online archive copies are not local.<p>Mozilla&#x27;s MAFF format didn&#x27;t make the transition to Quantum.<p>Web-Capture.net is nice (no affiliation) but I&#x27;m hoping to find something that is not dependent on one person continuing to keep a service afloat.<p>Thus, I&#x27;d appreciate your recommendations! I&#x27;m on a Windows machine.

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