SNsnshn·Oct 12, 2026Submission
Monolith – GUI and CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
1 points · Open discussionY2Z
monolith
Rust2019–2026
Y2Z / monolith
monolith
⬛️ GUI/CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
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⬛️ GUI/CLI tool and library for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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22 sourcesThe only way I know of is prepossessing with a web browser and piping it to some thing like monolith [0]
So you end up with something like this [1]:
> chromium --headless --window-size=1920,1080 --run-all-compositor-stages-before-draw --virtual-time-budget=9000 --incognito --dump-dom https://github.com | monolith - -I -b https://github.com -o github.html
- [0] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
- [1] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith?tab=readme-ov-file#dynamic-c...
In Self-Host and Tech Independence: The Joy of Building Your OwnI had tried using monolith [0] to feed webpages into Claude but all the html was too much token context. I ended up Print > Save as PDF-ing somewhat often and that worked pretty well. But just giving a URL is ideal.
[0] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
In Claude can now search the webI've been using HTTrack for almost two decades to create static archives of a yearly website for an annual event.
It doesn't do the job 100% but it's a start. In particular, HTTrack does not support srcset, so only the default (1x) pixel-density images were archived (though I manually edited the archives to inject the high pixel-density images, as well as numerous other necessary fix-ups).
The benefit of the tool is fine control over the crawling process as well as which files are included. Included files have their URLs rewritten in the archived HTML (and CSS) to account for querystrings, absolute vs. relative URLs, external paths, etc.; non-included files also have their URLs rewritten to change relative to absolute links; thus, you can browse the static archive, and non-included assets still function if they are online at their origina
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l URL, even if the static archive is on local storage or hosted at a different domain than the original site.
It was more work each year as the website gradually used script in more places, leading to more and more places I would need to manually touch-up the archive to make it browsable. The website was not itself an SPA, but contained SPAs on certain pages; my goal was to capture the snapshot of the initial HTML paint of these SPAs but not to have them functional beyond that. This was (expectedly) beyond HTTrack's capabilities.
At least one other team member wanted to investigate https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith as a potential modern alternative.
My link blog is just an rss feed. It's immensely helpful. I can feed the articles into LLMs so they can be tagged and summarized and I always have a copy (no bitrot thanks to monolith: https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith)
https://enlace.space/~erik/rss.xml
In Build a link blog like Simon WillisonThere is "SingleFile"[0][1] and a tool called "Monolith"[2]. Of course Ctrl+S works quite well too.
[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singlefilez/
[2]: https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
They all have ShowHNs with (probably) many more alternatives in the comments.
In DIY Web Archiving ZineFor command line I can recommend `monolith` https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
In Singlefile: A web extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML fileI am using monolith to just save the whole page to disk.
https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
In Is stuff online worth saving?Cool, but consider monolith for this instead (https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith)
- Outputs a single .html file, consumable with any web browser on any platform
- Rust, so, you know, +1 HN (;D)
In Creating a Safari webarchive from the command lineMonolith – CLI tool for saving complete web pages as a single HTML file
772 points · Open discussionI have never used monolith to say with any certainty, but two things in your description are worth highlighting between the goals of WARC versus the umpteen bazillion "save this one page I'm looking at as a single file" type projects:
1. WARC is designed, as a goal, to archive the request-response handshake. It does not get into the business of trying to make it easy for a browser to subsequently display that content, since that's a browser's problem
2. Using your cited project specifically, observe the number of "well, save it but ..." options <https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith#options> which is in stark contrast to the archiving goals I just spoke about. It's not a good snapshot of history if the server responded with `content-type: text/html;charset=iso-8859-1` back in the 90s but "modern tools" want everything to be UTF-8 so we'll just
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convert it, shall we? Bah, I don't like JavaScript, so we'll just toss that out, shall we? And so on
For 100% clarity: monolith, and similar, may work fantastic for any individual's workflow, and I'm not here to yuck anyone's yum; but I do want to highlight that all things being equal it should always be possible to derive monolith files from warc files because the warc files are (or at least have the goal of) perfect fidelity of what the exchange was. I would guess only pcap files would be of higher fidelity, but also a lot more extraneous or potentially privacy violating details
For personal archiving, how does WARC compare to tools that can save pages as single HTML that can be directly opened in browser, like SingleFile, monolith?
[0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/singlefile/mpiodijh...
[1] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
In An Introduction to the WARC File (2021)You can pipe the URLs through something like monolith[1].
https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
In Ask HN: Full-text browser history search forever?Nice project! This project, and a similar project called Monolith[0], was a bit of an inspiration for making my own single HTML file tool called Humble[1] to solve a few edges cases I was having with bundling pages (and since I wanted a TypeScript API for making page bundles).
[0] https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
[1] https://github.com/assemblylanguage/humble
In SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML fileSimilar project -> https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith
(I used both and ended up favoring monolith, but can’t remember why. I think they’re pretty comparable/am grateful for both of them)
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