How to save web-pages for future view?
I was just thinking about my work at CodeCall. All the threads, posts and tutorials I made. They are worth a lot to me. But someday they may cease to exist, servers may get struck by a lightning, or my internet connection is down. What then?
I immidiately thought about saving web pages. Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome of course offer that. But for one, they often save it like a crap. Once I saved some offers from Allegro, similar to eBay, and everything was corrupted.
Also they save pages into tens of files, so saving all my threads would take so many files, oh not really a great idea. IE supports saving to a single MHTML file but it also does not work with every page. Not to mention I won't open it on a linux system.
So what other possibility is there left? Any software that saves webpages with success?
Edit: Here is a screenshot of a thread saved in Chrome. Amazing stuff.
Last edited by ArekBulski; 08-30-2009 at 12:50 PM.
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You could view the source and copy the html for the main body text, since you are interested in that rather then the entire page. You could also take screenshots. There are free services to take a screenshot of an entire page.
There is also software for grabbing wbepages and most browsers have an offline mode for saving that is better than saving a page to the disk drive.
Waybacknachine keeps records of pages as well.
There are backups of CC all over in many different locations.If the U.S. blew up we would still have the last 5 days worth of backups.
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Well, I think saving HTML won't do much. I would like to reain the visual look and graphics. Saving screenshots, on the other hand, seems to be the only solution that I did not put down yet. Problem is, I am not comfortable with the lack of scrolling that it brings. Screens' size would be tolerable, though.
Software designed to do that would be great. Do you know any specific? Browser offline mode, hmm, I never tried that one. But I restore my system now and then and Chrome won't be able to work with that, I think.
Wayback Machine is nice, wow. But it only has copies since 2008, as far as I can see. Besides, my whole need is to be able to view those when I am offline.
Oh that is very nice to hear! I am storing all the solutions and screenshots that I post in my documents folder. So if my computer fails then I have a real-time backup in the U.S.
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Can't you go to File and click Save page as.
If the U.S. blew up you wouldn't be able to do anything with the backups.Originally Posted by Jordan
There are backups of CC all over in many different locations.
Saving in Chrome, Firefox and IE produces just crap. I want the pages in their own look, not just some minced html code. Needz higher quality.Can't you go to File and click Save page as.
If the U.S. blew up you wouldn't be able to do anything with the backups.
Hah, sure. That is exactly what I wanted to say. Who would recover CodeCall if Jordan got turned into ashes?
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How about this: How to Save Web Pages and Blogs for Offline Reading?
Maybe, we need a backup Jordan in some very little known country, who can restore CodeCall?
What about having a backup on the moon?
True, but there would still be backups.Can't you go to File and click Save page as.
If the U.S. blew up you wouldn't be able to do anything with the backups.
Who would pay for the CC server and domain name anyway?How about this: How to Save Web Pages and Blogs for Offline Reading?
Maybe, we need a backup Jordan in some very little known country, who can restore CodeCall?
Transfer time is too great.What about having a backup on the moon?
i use opera alot and it saves pages really well
it downloads all images in the page and puts all the content in a single file
ive tried FF and it saves like crap, it saves pages assuming you will be connected to the internet when you open it
i got saved blogs and tutorials by members on my pc
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In the future, try keep your content separate from formatting.
What I'm saying is... use XML
(that will give you the flexibility and consistency your looking for).
Then you can store all your data in crystals
or better yet... in your own DNA to be passed
down generation after generation!!
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