Archive web apps?

[orschiro]

Dear @rahiel,

Just a quick question:

Is it possible to archive a web app locally (i.e. access offline) that has some interactive functionality?

Example: http://wikitable.eu5.org/

I would love to take this editor with me while being offline!

Thankfully,

~Robert

[rahiel]

Hey @orschiro, this is not possible with Archiveror now. Chromium doesn't save javascript in the local MHTML files, it also disallows loading of external content from file:// pages.

But it is still possible, I tried something with wget. First navigate your shell to where you want to save the files, then:

wget -p -H -k http://wikitable.eu5.org/
python3 -m http.server

And navigate in your browser to http://0.0.0.0:8000/wikitable.eu5.org/. I'm not sure if this will work for all websites, wget has many options and it might need some tweaking, you can see here the wget options we used. That python command starts a local webserver, because otherwise the browser would block external resources (here just scripts in another folder) if you'd open it directly with file://.

It may also be worth looking at http://www.httrack.com/. I found it after I realized that this local archiving via a browser extension is kind of crazy.

[orschiro]

Hi @rahiel,

Thanks for your wget workaround. This is working very well!

> It may also be worth looking at http://www.httrack.com/. I found it after I realized that this local archiving via a browser extension is kind of crazy.

Well, for me the charm of your extension lies in the fact that it does all the archiving automatically.

~Robert

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On Apr 9 2016, at 10:45 pm, Rahiel Kasim <notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hey @orschiro, this is not possible with Archiveror now. Chromium doesn't save javascript in the local MHTML files, it also disallows loading of external content from file:// pages.

But it is still possible, I tried something with wget. First navigate your shell to where you want to save the files, then:

wget -p -H -k http://wikitable.eu5.org/

python3 -m http.server

And navigate in your browser to http://0.0.0.0:8000/wikitable.eu5.org/. I'm not sure if this will work for all websites, wget has many options and it might need some tweaking, you can see here the wget options we used. That python command starts a local webserver, because otherwise the browser would block external resources (here just scripts in another folder) if you'd open it directly with file://.

It may also be worth looking at http://www.httrack.com/. I found it after I realized that this local archiving via a browser extension is kind of crazy.

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[rahiel]

Well, for me the charm of your extension lies in the fact that it does all the archiving automatically.

:smile:

I thought about letting the extension communicate with an external program to manage the archives for more flexibility. But the simplest solution often wins.