#Question: Saving pages
What is the best format for saving a long online browser page with text and picture (like near-infinite scroll page) which I can load again *offline* and copy and paste text or pic from)
(for example, not saving as image image file as I wouldn't be able to copy the text again)
@gabriel Yeah I guess though a minor thought from dealing with PDF previously
1/ PDF always seems to have line breaks when saving (almost like text wrap is off) so copy and pasting paragraphs means a whole lot of broken sentences needing manual re-editing - is that avoidable (or you know how to sort out for preparation for that?)
@gabriel MASTODON POSTs RE-SAVED (PER POST, SINGLE FILE)
PDF Output = Good idea BUT I think the long-never-ending-scroll of post feed means it will tap out memory or PDF max size/length (assume it exists) and then something else trips over since it's 1000's of posts and images vertically - so pretty sure nothing can do it all in one and will *anyway* lead to 1 massive file (with need a beefy system to save it in first place or load later...
which is probably ok as 1 file backup and more readable... but
IDEALLY I think the JSON output to smaller files (1 file per post - self-titled) would be more manageable and friendly all round.
This too below will load it all nicely as one long scroll but not sure how to get it to output to single files:
https://bovine.social/mastodon/
Single HTML files per post (which this tool doesn't do but pretty damn close) it almost already does when parsing but as 1 long page - near enough same format you see on your screen. So could do single files I'm sure !
Single file output (per post) seems the way (more searchable + only a few pictures max to save so it's not to heavy to load...)
PLUS I can send my single posts to people !!
...SO IN THEORY IT'S :
https://bovine.social/mastodon/
+ SINGLE FILE / POST MODE
+ AUTO-SAVE AS 1st LINE OF POST
#FreeSchool #Fediverse
#Mastodon #Export #Backup #Offline #Readable Single Post
@freeschool@qoto.org print to PDF?
For a while I tried out a browser extension called singlefile which apparently has a cli tool now.