SingleFile

SingleFile SingleFile helps you to save a complete web page into a single HTML file. SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Safari, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera. Table of Contents SingleFile Table of Contents Demo Install Getting started Additional notes FAQ Release notes Known Issues and Troubleshooting Command Line Interface (SingleFile CLI) Integration with user scripts File format comparison Projects using/compatible with SingleFile Privacy Policy Contributors Code derived from third party projects Icons License Demo Demo.SingleFile.mp4 Install SingleFile can be installed from the store of: All browsers: https://www.getsinglefile.com Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/single-file Firefox for Android: https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/single-file Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/singlefile/mpiodijhokgodhhofbcjdecpffjipkle Safari (macOS and iOS): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/singlefile-for-safari/id6444322545 Microsoft Edge: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/efnbkdcfmcmnhlkaijjjmhjjgladedno You can also download the zip file (https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/archive/main.zip) of the project and install it manually by unzipping it somewhere on your disk and following these instructions: Firefox: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/temporary-installation-in-firefox Chrome and Microsoft Edge: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile-MV3 Safari: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile-Safari-Extension Getting started Click on the SingleFile button in the extension toolbar to save the page. You can click again on the button to cancel the action when processing a page. Additional notes Open the context menu by right-clicking the SingleFile button in the extension toolbar or on the webpage. It allows you to save: the current tab, the selected content, the selected frame. You can also process multiple tabs in one click and save: the selected tabs, the unpinned tabs, all the tabs. Select "Annotate and save the page..." in the context menu to: highlight text, add notes, remove content. The context menu also allows you to activate the auto-save of: the current tab, the unpinned tabs, all the tabs. With auto-save active, pages are automatically saved every time after being loaded (or before being unloaded if not). Right-click on the SingleFile button and select "Manage extension" (Firefox) / "Options" (Chrome) to open the options page. Enable the option "Destination > save to Google Drive" or "Destination > upload to GitHub" to upload pages to Google Drive or GitHub respectively. Enable the option "Misc. > add proof of existence" to prove the existence of saved pages by linking the SHA256 of the pages into the blockchain. You can use the customizable shortkey Ctrl+Shift+Y to save the current tab or the selected tabs. Go to about:addons and select "Manage extension shortcuts" in the cogwheel menu to change it in Firefox. Go to chrome://extensions/shortcuts to change it in Chrome. The default save folder is the download folder configured in your browser, cf. about:addons in Firefox and chrome://settings in Chrome. See the extension help in the options page for more detailed information about the options and technical notes. FAQ See https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/main/faq.md Release notes See https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/single-file/versions/ Known Issues and Troubleshooting See https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/main/known-issues.md Command Line Interface (SingleFile CLI) You can save web pages to HTML from the command line interface. See here for more info: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli. Integration with user scripts You can execute a user script just before (and after) SingleFile saves a page. For more info, see https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/wiki/How-to-execute-a-user-script-before-a-page-is-saved. File format comparison HTML Self-extracting ZIP MHTML Webarchive (Safari) HTML+folder Pages are saved as a single file ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ HTML and styles are minified ✓ ✓ Unused HTML and styles are removed from files ✓ ✓ Binary resources are not encoded in base 64 ✓ ✓ ✓ Files are compressed ✓ Files can be viewed without installing any extension ✓ ✓¹ ✓² ✓³ ✓ Files can be viewed without running JavaScript ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ Files can be unzipped to extract page resources ✓ n/a Files contains the text of the page (plain or formatted) which can be indexed ✓ ✓⁴ ✓ ✓ ✓ Footnotes: ¹ When using the "universal" self-extracting file format ² Only in Chromium-based browsers, and Internet Explorer ³ Only in Safari ⁴ An option must be enabled in the extension Projects using/compatible with SingleFile ArchiveBox - Open-source self-hosted web archiving: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox htmls-to-datasette - Tool to index HTML files into a Sqlite database: https://github.com/pjamar/htmls-to-datasette Karakeep - Self-hostable bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI: https://karakeep.app KOReader - Document viewer primarily aimed at e-ink readers: https://github.com/koreader/koreader linkding - Bookmark manager that you can host yourself. It's designed be to be minimal, fast, and easy to set up using Docker: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding Linkwarden - Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters, all in one place: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden obsidian-html-plugin - Plugin for reading HTML pages in Obsidian: https://github.com/nuthrash/obsidian-html-plugin Org-Dex.el - Emacs package designed to enhance Org-mode by integrating SingleFile CLI: https://github.com/nitincodery/org-dex.el Petal Cite Web Importer - Browser extension to save PDFs and capture web pages in Petal Cite: https:/