SingleFile/companion

SingleFile Companion

SingleFile Companion is a program that runs outside the browser and can help to make the saving process more transparent when the auto-save is active. It also allows the pages to be saved in another directory than the download directory. It uses the Native Messaging API to communicate with SingleFile.

Install

• Install SingleFile CLI

• In the companion folder of SingleFile, go into the subfolder corresponding to your OS and your browser. For example, if you use Chome on Windows:

cd companion

cd win

cd chrome

• Make install.sh executable (Linux/Unix/BSD etc.).

chmod +x install.sh

• Run install

./install.sh (Linux/Unix/BSD etc.)

install.bat (Windows)

• Enable the option Misc. > save the page with SingleFile Companion in SingleFile

Options

The options.json file allows configuring SingleFile Companion. Here are the entries you can edit:

• savePath: path where to save files (default: SingleFile/companion path)
• backEnd: backend used to save the page (default: "puppeteer")
• errorFile: path of the file where errors are stored (default: undefined)
• browserHeadless: whether the browser is launched in headless mode (default: true)
• browserDebug: whether the browser is launched with the developer tools opened (default: false)

Notes

• Only the Chrome version of SingleFile allows you to use SingleFile Companion at the moment. This feature will be available in Firefox when this bug is fixed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1630415. Although, you can use SingleFile Companion with Firefox by installing SingleFile manually, see https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile#install.