March, 6, 2024 archives

I made a new thing, which I decided to call Frozen Soup. It creates a single-file version of an HTML page by in-lining all of the images using data: URLs, and pulling in any CSS and JavaScript files.

It is loosely inspired by SingleFile which is a browser extension that does a similar thing. There are also tools built on top of that which let you automate it, but then you’re spinning up a headless browser, and it all felt very heavyweight. The venerable wget will also pull down a page and its prerequisites and rewrite the URLs to be relative, but I don’t think it has a comparable single-file output.

This may also exist in other incarnations, this is mostly an excuse for me to practice with Python. As such, it is a very crude first draft right now, but I hope to keep tinkering with it for at least a little while longer.

I have also been contributing some changes and test cases to ArchiveBox, but this is different yet also a little related.