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SingleFile CLI

“SingleFile CLI“ is a CLI tool to download the whole HTML page with its resources into one single file. To run it, you need “node.js” and a browser like “Firefox” installed. Here are the instructions how to make it work.

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# Download and install "single-file-cli".
git clone https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli.git
cd single-file-cli
npm install
chmod +x single-file
./single-file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page /media/sf_exchange/wikipedia_main_page.html --back-end=webdriver-gecko
# Download "geckodriver" as prompted in the error message when running the
# command "./single-file ..." directly.
#   The geckodriver executable could not be found on the current PATH. Please 
#   download the latest version from https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/
#   and ensure it can be found on your PATH.
#   URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
#   Stack: Error: The geckodriver executable could not be found on the current
#   PATH. Please download the latest version from
#   https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/ and ensure it can be found
#   on your PATH.
# Download the binary package for your OS from "https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/"
# and put it in the current directory(in my case it's
# "https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases/download/v0.31.0/geckodriver-v0.31.0-linux64.tar.gz").
# Run.
./single-file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page \
  /media/sf_exchange/wikipedia_main_page.html \
  --browser-executable-path ./geckodriver \
  --back-end=webdriver-gecko
# Another example:
./single-file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Estancia \
  /media/sf_exchange/Lake_Estancia.html \
  --browser-executable-path ./geckodriver \
  --back-end=webdriver-gecko \
  --browser-wait-delay 20000 \
  --include-infobar true

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