Reviews for SingleFile
SingleFile by gildas
816 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by 31core, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by t_wheeler, 4 years agoMight be one of the best extensions I've ever installed. Works great.
I'm using this to solve two problems:
1. "I looked this up once, where was that? What did I search for? Can I find it in my history?"
2. "I should re-read this for the next few weeks/months to reinforce what I learned."
3. "It would be great to capture the Reddit/HackerNews discussion thread along with this article."
Oh that's three. I lied. Oops. :)
My filename template is {visit-year-utc}/{visit-month-utc}/{datetime-iso}-{page-title}.html. This lets me easily identify pages from the previous month, which I then can review and update as needed. Generally I find things through Reddit or HackerNews, so I annotate the page with the post URL. That context comes in handy.
Would be nice to be able to save pages to a custom path in the filesystem. Tags would be a useful addition as well, though it's pretty easy to just do a search in the filesystem for relevant content. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12692951, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by jun, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 5812635, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13117838, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by ananth, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by bandolerofuzz, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16844343, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Bruno, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hu kio, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ramons, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Buster Blue, 4 years agoExactly what I was hoping for. It saves everything together in 1 file, and even adds some info into a button on the top right about when the page was saved, and what the original url was.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Talamaur42, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Lucawiouh, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by NM, 4 years agoC'est très bien fait. J'apprécierais beaucoup en export en PDF, d'autant plus que si la page dépasse la taille de l'écran, l'export en PDF par défaut n'est que partiel !
Developer response
posted 4 years agoMerci pour votre revue. Malheureusement, SingleFile n'est pas vraiment adapté à la sauvegarde au format PDF. A vrai dire, SingleFile est plutôt une solution alternative. Personnellement, je considère que le PDF n'est pas un format adapté à la sauvegarde de pages web, c'est une des raisons pour lesquelles l'extension existe. - Rated 5 out of 5by Visual Notes, 4 years agoAt first I could not believe that this extension really combines ALL assets in a single HTML file, that a 1:1 image of a page can be archived with correct display (including all links).
After seeing the saved file, I saw images converted to base64, but still couldn't believe that at least external links to JS and CSS files are not used here: so turned off the internet connection and cleared the browser cache. Result: the page was still displayed correctly!
It really does combine HTML and all assets into one single HTML file.
This is really impressive!
As another user remarked: we've been wishing for this since the 1990s! Wow. Thank you! - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16858296, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14057938, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by glocal, 4 years agoI have been waiting for this since the late 90s! Absolutely essential for academic and serious archiving work. It produces a single file, the file is indexable, it adds source/date metadata, it edits/annotates, it saves selectable sections and links, it autosaves, there is a version for all major browsers, the saved file opens in any browser without the need for an addon so it's browser agnostic and future-proof, and more. The only thing missing (I think) is being able to edit/annotate the previously saved file. Brilliant and should come as standard in all browsers.
EDIT: Actually, you can edit/annotate previously saved files and SingleFIle cleverly won't touch the info bar if there is one already. Excellent! 6* for that. Now I wish you could select first and then click on the highlight button rather than the other way round :) - Rated 5 out of 5by circcc, 4 years agoIt would be convenient if there was a "Save tabs to the right" menu.