Download Page For Offline Viewing
Venessa Serr
I am curious about creating a website for a trade show that is able to play and interact offline? Trade show internet costs are a lot and sometimes are spotty and can be lost - so is it possible to create a beautiful interactive site and still be able to access it offline?
Thanks for the reply I am trying to figure out a way to create an interactive presentation possibly a app/microapp that is fancier and more premium then a PPT with interactivity and videos also scrollability - BUT it is for a trade show so WIFI is spotty at times and needs to be available offline (too much? lol)
Hi, I just found this topic and I am in a similar situation. I need to create an interactive touchscreen offline one-page app for a museum. Can someone elaborate a bit more on how it can be done with the use of Webflow? I am more of a UX UI designer than a coder, so I wanted to know if is it possible to create such an app without coding knowledge.
I am looking for an app (preferably free) that can save webpages for offline use. I tried several but none of them can include images and links. When I saved a page I want to be able to open underlying pages by clicking the link in offline mode. In other words, when I save the page and select the option to go to link depth = 1, all the links on the main page should be accessible offline.
In other words, when I saved a page and access it offline to read it and I want to follow a link on that page, the link will not open since only the main page is saved and not the underlying. Not what I'm looking for.
I have not experienced the behavior you describe, but I do agree with the FAQ that most websites have a "print" or "single page" option. (Most of my saved pages are technical /design articles from blogs, and all of those are single page.)
Are you able to save all pages to the links from other websites too or just New York Times? I'd be glad to give the app a try but their FAQ clearly says it only saves one page at a time and not all related subpages that are referred to by links on the main page you are saving. I know it's not expensive but still it would be a waste of money if I discover it's useless to me. I have a free app that can save pages one by one for offline use anyway.
No doubt instapaper is great, it has a lot of positive feedback but I doubt it can do what I mean. No offence I hope because you say you were able to save multi-page articles. But how about this: save following main page from wikipedia:
Again, yes, I save multi page articles. And when I read them I can follow the links. But I never use my iPad offline. My primary focus is archiving articles of interest related to my research interests for later in depth reading.
Well old Internet explorer (7.0 I think) was able to do this. You could save a page for offline reading and then even specify the link depth. For instance depth 3 would mean you could save the main page, then offline tap any link on that page which opened another page (depth 2) and then click any other link to go to depth 3. Of course the number of pages you saved this way could take some time and disk space. The more links, the more pages were saved.
Safari saves the link and the webpage. You can read the webpage later, even if you're offline. Go to Settings > Safari, scroll down to Reading List, and make sure that Automatically Save Offline is on.
The most reliable way to catch up on your digital reading is to make sure it's saved and accessible for offline reading. Many apps and browsers can help you save it for later. Here's how to download what you want and keep it readable, even without an internet connection.
For Chrome users on the desktop, the easiest built-in way to save a web page for offline reading is to download the page as a file. Open the three-dot menu on the top right and select More Tools > Save page as. You can also right-click anywhere on the page and select Save as or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + S in Windows or Command + S in macOS.
Chrome can save the complete web page, including text and media assets, or just the HTML text. Download the file you prefer to your computer and read the page at any time, even without an internet connection.
Save a web page on the Android app by opening the three-dot menu icon and tapping the download icon up top. A banner at the bottom of the screen will tell you when the page has been made available for offline reading. Click Open to view a static version of the page. Access downloads later by opening the three-dot menu and tapping Downloads.
To make an article available for offline reading within the Chrome app on iPhone or iPad, tap the Share icon (an upward-facing arrow) and select Add to Reading List. Open the browser's three-dot menu and select Reading List to view any saved pages. Long-press a saved item until a menu pops up, then tap Open Offline Version and you're ready to read offline.
Microsoft's Edge browser is powered by the same Chromium engine found in Google Chrome, so directions here will be similar. Click the three-dot ellipsis menu on the top right and select More tools > Save page as to download a file to your PC.
On Android, the process is also similar to Chrome, but the three-dot menu is in the bottom-center of the screen. Tap it, swipe up slightly, and select Download page. The download will appear at the bottom of the screen; tap Open to read. To read later, tap the three-dot menu and select Downloads. Web pages you have saved will be available to read offline automatically.
Save a web page in Safari by opening File > Save As. You can then pick between file formats Web Archive (all text and media assets) or Page Source (source text only). Choose File > Export as PDF if you need a PDF version of the article.
Safari also has a Reading List feature that allows you to save articles for offline reading. Desktop users can click the Share icon and choose Add to Reading List. Another option is Bookmarks > Add to Reading List. Once added, click the Show sidebar button in the Safari toolbar and make sure the eyeglasses icon is selected. Right-click an entry and select Save Offline.
Make sure saved articles are available for offline reading by default under Safari > Preferences > Advanced. Check the box next to Save articles for offline reading automatically.
Set saved articles to be made available offline by default under Settings > Safari. Scroll all the way to the bottom and turn on the switch next to Automatically Save Offline.
For offline reading with Firefox, open the hamburger menu and choose Save Page As to download the page as a file. You will have the choice to download the complete page, the HTML only, or a simple text file.
Otherwise, the desktop browser relies heavily on integration with Pocket, the save-it-later service Firefox maker Mozilla acquired in 2017. Right-click and select Save Page to Pocket to do just that, or click the Pocket icon on the top right. Content saved to Pocket is accessible via GetPocket.com or the Pocket mobile apps. Refresh Pocket to make sure what you saved appears in your account, and it will then be available to read offline.
The iOS version of Firefox has a reading list feature that allows for offline reading. Open the three-dot menu in the search bar and select Add to Reading List. Once an article has been saved, tap the hamburger menu and select Reading List. Select the article you want to open and it will be made available to you offline automatically.
For more high-powered solutions, turn to the utility software HTTrack (for Windows, Linux, and Android) or SiteSucker (for macOS and iOS). These programs can download entire website directories from a URL, letting you navigate a site while offline.
If you open a local .html file (downloaded before and saved to disk) in Firefox (as in most other browsers), some pictures are displayed, others not. Is there any configuration setting to get all pictures displayed? Or what would you suggest to do in order to be able to view websites offline the same way as they appear when viewing them on the Internet? Thanks for help.
(1) I find that Save As (complete webpage) sometimes fails on the first try but then works on the second try. I don't use this very much, so I don't know when it started doing that. Either way, this format is not completely reliable because scripts in the page may not run in exactly the same way offline as they did online.
(2) My personal preference is to PDF pages if I want to capture them in their current form. Some sites ruin their print view, so it doesn't work well on those sites, but you can easily check by calling up print (Ctrl+P) and looking at the preview. Firefox and Chrome can both save to PDF directly from their print overlay without using an extra converter.
Using Menu > Save Page As you need to select Web Page Complete.This will save the page as an HTM or HTML file with any extra data,like pictures, in a subfolder of the same name.
First, I desperately try to succeed in saving complete webpages. I made a post concerning this issue ( -US/questions/1349543). That post has been marked a duplicate of this one. Difficult to understand, how trying to find help with failure of saving webpages and asking how to view all pictures when viewing a local .html file should be the same subject...Second, if the Save As (complete webpage) works, all pictures are downloaded, but if you open the local .html file with Firefox, only some pictures are displayed, whereas others are not. This is the case as long as I know and maybe Internet Explorer is the only browser showing all pictures.The "Save As" resulting in a failure is only since version 83 or 84. As it seems to be impossible to find help for my problems, maybe someone could give me another kind of advice:1. Suggesting some other web browser, that offers a little bit of the browsing comfort and privacy respect as Firefox (Chrome saves all web pages, but all web traces clearing has to be done manually; Edge seems ok, but settings are reset with Windows Update...).2. Downgrading to a prior Firefox version (v80-v82), with which webpages savings worked correctly (as with very old versions on Windows 2000; I really can't understand how new software versions - not only Firefox - work less and less correctly) would solve my problem, but isn't that a security risk and finally better considering to switch to Chrome, Edge, Opera...?
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