SingleFile

SingleFile

SingleFile is a WebExtension compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Opera, and Edge that helps you to save a complete web page into a single HTML file.

Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdV8DBW5b0g

Install

• Firefox Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file
• Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/mpiodijhokgodhhofbcjdecpffjipkle
• Edge, Opera: The extension is not on the store yet, you must download the zip file (https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/archive/master.zip) and install it manually

Getting started

• Wait until the page is fully loaded, you may need to scroll down the entire page to be sure all elements are loaded.
• Click on the SingleFile button in the extension toolbar to save the page.

Additional notes

• Open the context menu by right-clicking the SingleFile button in the extension toolbar or on the webpage. It allows you to:
  • save a tab,
  • or a selected content,
  • or a frame content,
  • or selected tabs,
  • or unpinned tabs,
  • or all tabs.
• The context menu also allows you to activate the auto-save of:
  • the current tab,
  • or unpinned tabs,
  • or all tabs.
• With auto-save active, pages are automatically saved every time after being loaded (or before being unloaded if not). The period of time to wait before saving the page can be configured in the options page.
• The options page allows you to auto-save the page after after being loaded or before being unloading only.
• Right-click on the SingleFile button and select "Options" to open the options page.
• To save multiple tabs, select them first and click on the SingleFile button.

More info

See the extension help in the options page for more detailed information about the options, and technical notes.

Known Issues

• All browsers:
  • After installing the extension, if you want to save a tab that was already opened then you need to refresh it first.
  • For security reasons, you cannot save pages hosted on https://chrome.google.com or https://addons.mozilla.org.
  • Frame contents cannot be saved when "auto-save on page unload" option is checked.
• Chrome/Opera:
  • You must enable the option "Allow access to file URLs" in the extension page to display the infobar when viewing a saved page, or to save a page stored on the filesystem.
  • If saved pages have file names like "4e5a13fd-6638-4a37-a34b-a3c104ac66" instead of the title then it means another extension is conflicting with SingleFile. You can uncheck the option "save pages in background" to circumvent this issue.
• Firefox:
  • You cannot save selected tabs via the context menu because it is not possible to select multiple tabs.
• Edge:
  • The file name looks like "4e5a13fd-6638-4a37-a34b-a3c104ac66".

Troubleshooting unknown issues

Please follow these steps if you find an unknown issue:

• Reset SingleFile options.
• If resetting options did not fix the issue, try to disable all other extensions to see if there is a conflict.
• If there is a conflict then try to determine against which extension(s).
• Please report the issue with a short description describing how to reproduce the issue, Browser version, OS name and version here: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/issues.

Suggestions are welcome :)

License

SingleFile is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

SingleFile is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with SingleFile.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

SingleFile (c) 2010-2018 Gildas Lormeau