It also works with JavaScript-heavy websites like Mastodon and Youtube, which the standard “Save Page” feature implemented in all browsers usually fails to save, though some features like collapsibles are missing.
Am I missing something? How is this different from CTRL+S
Edit: clicked on link and saw demo video. Pretty cool, saves all images and assets without having that big folder of stuff
Really useful extension.
It’s a wonderful extension. Wish it played nice with the Just Read extension, but that’s my only complaint.
What’s the use case? I can’t imagine why I would want to save the interface on a YouTube page, or any similar interactive page. If anything I’d just want the relevant media or text.
Is youtube what people see as “the internet” nowadays? There are millions of websites out there with unimaginable troves of valuable information that isnt available anywhere else. When you actually do anything productive like research, art, engineering, cooking, etc. you often look for very specific info and when you find it you might want to archive it, because websites constantly just disappear forever, never to be seen again. Preserving the exact formatting is often very important too.
This doesn’t answer my question. There were two examples given in the OP, YouTube and Mastodon (which I don’t use).
Research, engineering, and cooking are all things I do and I can’t think of a case where I’d want to save all the Javascript on a web page. If anything most interfaces are way too heavy these days. Usually saving a media file, or a pdf, or copy/ pasting text, or at most a screenshot is perfectly fine.
What do you end up using this for?
Probably youtube is just a bad example in this case. But javascript heavy pages were regular SaveAs doesn’t really work definitely exist, and the value is in preserving those websites information and formatting
What websites?
I can’t imagine why I would want to save the interface on a YouTube page
Archiving a community post, for example.
I just listened to an audiobook, where the author constantly said “you can find a free example of this on the website”, but the material is no longer available on the website. At least not for free.
