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It may well be I am blind and don't see the function, but how can I download/save a post to my desktop? I am getting increasingly worried about poal being censored under the new digital controls being implemented by wef/who and other supranational entities.

It may well be I am blind and don't see the function, but how can I download/save a post to my desktop? I am getting increasingly worried about poal being censored under the new digital controls being implemented by wef/who and other supranational entities.

(post is archived)

[–] • 2 pts (edited )

The function you describe does not exist on-site as far as I know.

You can save a post, but saving the post to a local file must be done manually via:

  • copy>paste of text from the post/comment into a txt file
  • screen capture saved to an image file
  • using a browser extension to save the complete page as a single html file

I do all of these depending on the nature of what I am saving.

Regarding the last choice, I've found SingleFile browser extension to be very useful for quickly saving web pages to single html files.

https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile https://web.archive.org/web/20210909230324/https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile https://archive.ph/1d75K

SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera. It helps you to save a complete web page into a single HTML file.

It has plenty of customization and control options and preferences. With my selected preferences, a single saved page for me normally ranges in size from just a couple hundred kilobytes to a couple megabytes.

I also use two extensions to quickly right-click>archive a page using both archive.org and archive.today websites. I then hit the save page SingleFile button and save the archived page. In some instances, archiving a page leaves the page not displaying the same as it does normally due to some scripts not being loaded or some stuff missing. I need to save some pages directly instead of saving the archived page.

[–] • 1 pt

thank you for your answer

[–] • 0 pt

You're welcome. I hope that helps.

When saving pages, you could always do the normal 'Save page as' option, but that saves a page as a folder with all of the images, css and everything as separate files. I prefer having it all saved as a self-contained html file. There is an alternate version of SingleFile on github that also allows for the html file to be viewed and shared as a zip file. That could be useful for some.