Help me save my files!
September 8, 2014 9:01 PM Subscribe
I've saved a lot of files using the Firefox add-on "Scrapbook." Several thousands of files, actually. It has occurred to me that the internet being what it is, it is unlikely that the extension will work forever. I'm hoping that there is another way I can make permanent copies of webpages for later perusal.
I'm saving a lot of online fiction (fanfiction, I admit it, such a guilty pleasure!) and websites with recipes, sites to go back to, and journal abstracts. I would prefer not to use word documents as they are more complicated to sort, tag, and often take a long time to load. I like that the Scrapbooked pages load really fast. And just saving a page to folder results in several files. Is there anyplace I can save whole webpage captures? Without doing a ton of copy-pasting? Bonus points for being readable with a windows computer and ipad.
I'm saving a lot of online fiction (fanfiction, I admit it, such a guilty pleasure!) and websites with recipes, sites to go back to, and journal abstracts. I would prefer not to use word documents as they are more complicated to sort, tag, and often take a long time to load. I like that the Scrapbooked pages load really fast. And just saving a page to folder results in several files. Is there anyplace I can save whole webpage captures? Without doing a ton of copy-pasting? Bonus points for being readable with a windows computer and ipad.
I use Fireshot in Firefix to grab PDFs of entire webpages, but I use it sparingly and it's not always perfect. What you're interested in sounds a bit more labor intensive.
Doesn't Scrapbook save the webpages offline? Isn't that the whole point of the add-on? If not, Pocket sounds similar.
posted by AppleTurnover at 10:44 PM on September 8, 2014
Doesn't Scrapbook save the webpages offline? Isn't that the whole point of the add-on? If not, Pocket sounds similar.
posted by AppleTurnover at 10:44 PM on September 8, 2014
The simplest way would be to set up a virtual PDF printer I think - and just file > print your pages to the destination directory. I use chrome for this all the time but it is applicable to all browsers. This might help:
http://www.howtogeek.com/150891/how-to-print-to-pdf-in-windows-4-tips-and-tricks/
posted by tahu363 at 11:02 PM on September 8, 2014
http://www.howtogeek.com/150891/how-to-print-to-pdf-in-windows-4-tips-and-tricks/
posted by tahu363 at 11:02 PM on September 8, 2014
You might want to check out Evernote. They have a handy Web Clipper plugin for all the browsers and the data is accessible on mutliple platforms. Bonus: You search through the saves texts fairly easily, which would be a problem with multiple PDFs.
It's an online thing but there are easy ways to export your data into differents formats.
posted by KMB at 1:43 AM on September 9, 2014 [2 favorites]
It's an online thing but there are easy ways to export your data into differents formats.
posted by KMB at 1:43 AM on September 9, 2014 [2 favorites]
I've used the .mht format for this in the past.
MHTML, short for MIME HTML, is a web page archive format used to combine in a single document the HTML code and its companion resources that are otherwise represented by external links (such as images, Flash animations, Java applets, and audio files).
Internet Explorer has been supporting the format since version 5. I doubt that HTML is going anywhere.
posted by Solomon at 3:39 AM on September 9, 2014
MHTML, short for MIME HTML, is a web page archive format used to combine in a single document the HTML code and its companion resources that are otherwise represented by external links (such as images, Flash animations, Java applets, and audio files).
Internet Explorer has been supporting the format since version 5. I doubt that HTML is going anywhere.
posted by Solomon at 3:39 AM on September 9, 2014
I just print to PDF, but then I've saved dozen of pages, not thousands.
posted by COD at 5:18 AM on September 9, 2014
posted by COD at 5:18 AM on September 9, 2014
You can export scrapbook pages to a folder. Each exported page will get a subfolder named the same as the name of the page. It just exports normal html. You can then open the index.html file in that subfolder with a browser and there is your page.
posted by DarkForest at 9:04 AM on September 9, 2014
posted by DarkForest at 9:04 AM on September 9, 2014
Evernote for easy saving, then an IFTT recipe to publish to your personal blog (with all posts locked), and backup regularly. I think the Evernote desktop app saves things locally but I am not sure.
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:56 PM on September 10, 2014
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 12:56 PM on September 10, 2014
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