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How do I download rich text?

How can I download and archive a blog or website in plain text?

  • There are some blogs and websites I would like to read in plain text or even HTML, I just don't want to click through hundreds of pages, and I definitely don't want to download them one by one. Some of them also disappear forever after a while, and I am not exactly going to Evernote a hundred screenshots. I can't seem to find any tools that straightforwardly do what I want. I've found a couple that will convert the first few pages of a website into a Kindle-friendly format, but no more than that. This seems like it'd be straightforward, but I can't find anything. Paid software or services are fine.

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    https://archive-it.org/learn-more (built by the same people who maintain the https://archive.org/web/, I believe) does exactly what you described: Archive-It enables you to capture, manage and search collections of digital content without any technical expertise or hosting facilities. http://www.archive-it.org/

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soelo

I believe that you can use http://lynx.browser.org/ to do this. -dump dumps the formatted output from a web page to a file, specifically check out the -crawl and -traversal options, the man page for -traversal says:traverse all http links derived from startfile. When used with -crawl, each link that begins with the same string as startfile is output to a file, intended for indexing. See CRAWL.announce for more information.Note that a lot of web pages these days are just loading skeleton HTML and then loading the rest with JavaScript/AJAX-ish calls, and http://lynx.browser.org/ doesn't do JavaScript.

straw

For low-traffic blogs that I know I want to read and publish an RSS feed, I create an https://ifttt.com/ recipe in the http://instapaper.com/ channel to save everything there. I believe you can also do keyword matching with that recipe to constrain what gets saved.

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