SingleFile Alternatives

SingleFile reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Feb 2026

  Since 2019, I SingleFile (https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile) potentially ephemeral pages into a folder and pick stuff out when I feel like it, pruning entries that have lost relevance or appeal. Browsers' Print to PDF feature would work too. The "system" is exactly as reliable as its operator. No reminders included, but I don't want my computer beeping at me (and maybe you don't want really want that either).

• Perkeep lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Nov 2025

  WebRecorder [0] is the best implemention of this that I've tested. It runs as an extension in your browser, intercepting HTTP streams, so as long as you open a page in your browser the data is captured to reproduce it exactly. It outputs WARC files that are (in theory) compatible with the rest of the web archiving ecosystem, and has a WARC explorer interface to browse captured archives.

  For pages with dynamic content that can't be trivially reproduced by their HTTP streams— E.G., opening the archive triggers GETs with a mismatched timestamp, even if the file it's looking for is in the WARC under a different URI— There's always SingleFile [1], and Chromium's built-in MHTML Ctrl+S export, which "bake" the content into a static page.

  0: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/webrecorder-archive...

  1: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

• Email immutability matters more in a world with AI
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Oct 2025

  The provider should be able to create a snapshot at receive and/or open, similar to what https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep and https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile does with bookmarks, and attach it to the message.

• Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2025

  OP's workflow might be much more efficient with use of https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/

  It can handle most of what they describe for things like private/paywalled pages or media enclosures or completely self-contained archives that live locally or easy to use or editing before saving or ensuring lazy-loaded images are there, you can view it immediately to check for breakage, it automatically works with adblock and NoScript and when you delete stuff in the DOM using the picker so they can clean each page very efficiently (create a bunch of rules in your adblock by picking elements like in ublock, so you never have to do those again, then quickly mouse any remainder), and it stores the final DOM so you can interact with stuff to make sure it is visible or archived.

  So what I do ( https://gwern.net/archiving#preemptive-local-archiving ) is I have a script which calls SingleFile-CLI in a headless Chrome browser to automatically archive everything, and then opens up the original URL + snapshot in my normal Firefox, and look at the snapshot then original. If the snapshot looks good, I simply close the 2 tabs after a few seconds and I'm done; if the snapshot looks bad, then I look at the original and make edits: use Ublock Origin to define any necessary rules (assuming the page isn't cleaned up by all the rules I previously defined), make any minor tweaks to the DOM, and then SingleFile-browser-extension it manually.

  If you use enough adblock rules, then you get a similar effect to the 'templates' described, since it looks like OP is mostly just trying to remove as much as possible.

• Ask HN: Good Pocket Alternative
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2025

  * I really just want pocket as a bookmarking tool than the web reader. The web reader works, but it's very bad in cases with a lot of embeds/code snippets. If a site is pay-walled, only a small section is available in Pocket. I usually open the actual page in this case than read in pocket.

  * Some links I added a long time ago are permanently lost because the original page got taken down. It'd be much better if a permanent snapshot was taken(including all the images, this is pretty easy to do with something like https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile) of the page and is available even if the original page is lost.

• DIY Web Archiving Zine
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2025

  Yeah, I was disappointed with the mention only of webrecorder (nice effort, but not for everyone) and zero mention of projects like Archivebox ( https://Archivebox.io ) or Singlefile ( https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/ )

• SingleFile: A Web Extension to save a complete web page into a single HTML file
  8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2024

  SingleFile respects your privacy, you can find the privacy policy here [1].

  [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/pri...

• Is stuff online worth saving?
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2024

  I use https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

  I set it to tolerate longer processing times, and to open the file after saving so I can sanity check that it got everything. Works great at faithfully saving a page with images as it appears in browser, and saves so much time.

  You might also have a look at https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

• Omnivore Is Joining ElevenLabs
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Oct 2024

  > What are you experiences with this?

  You may want to try SingleFile:

  https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/?...

• WebP: The WebPage Compression Format
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2024
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