Kage
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How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
16 positive, 28 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 19 critical, out of 64 comments about the project. Thread score -0.05.
Idea: 10 for, 6 againstExecution: 1 for, 7 againstDocs: 0 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful idea for offline reading and archiving
From 4 comments
One use I'd have for this is company wikis that you want to give folks easy offline access to (maybe the wiki has documentation that's useful at sites that don't have cellular…
wolttam on HNThis is cool. I could see myself downloading the articles behind the first couple pages of hacker news with this, for viewing on a flight or long distance train ride with spotty…
lolpython on HNI was looking for something like this the other day, it can be very helpful.
nitotm on HNThis is awesome, we wanted an offline copy of someone’s prototype (as built on Lovable, etc) so we could do version control and sharing in an easier format. Wrote our approach…
kadhirvelm on HN
Objections
Strips JavaScript, so interactive sites and navigation break
From 3 comments
This is interesting. Is the intended use case mostly read-only websites like blogs/docs/essays? How well does it handle sites where navigation, search, dropdowns, or other UI…
carsonye on HNCurrently, all of that is broken. At one point, I had a traumatic experience where an archived HTML file kept redirecting to the live site, even though I already had all the…
tamnd on HNI was floored by the idea of browsing docs offline but disappointed that recreating the demo of archiving Paul Graham’s essays gave me a ZIM with broken images and broken Unicode…
kjmh on HN
README reads as AI-generated
From 2 comments
The readme is AI slop, and incredibly grating to read. The disgust I felt while reading it almost put me off trying the project. Is the code also AI slop?
chinnyys on HNThe README is LLM slop. This makes me assume the code is the same.
sneak on HN
Existing tools like SingleFile, HTTrack, and Print to PDF already do this
From 3 comments
I find SingleFile [0] a much more robust version of this. It strips out all the JavaScript too, but also packs everything into a single HTML file that is easy to transfer. Binary…
maxloh on HNI've been using "Print to PDF" as my principle bookmarks management tool, since 1998, and I have over 90,000+ such PDF's sitting on my system, easily re-read and discovered. So I…
aa-jv on HNI've been using httrack (https://www.httrack.com) to download wikis to read on flights, which isn't perfect but better than I'd found previously. I'll try this out, I'd be…
telesilla on HN
Requests
Cookie and login support
From 1 comment
I've had a subscription to this site: app.dancevision.com for a while. It requires cookies to login and view and each video (3 directories down) is hosted on Vimeo. Could Kage…
b0dhimind on HN
Single HTML output that opens without a server
From 2 comments
One use I'd have for this is company wikis that you want to give folks easy offline access to (maybe the wiki has documentation that's useful at sites that don't have cellular…
wolttam on HN> kage serve $HOME/data/kage/paulgraham.com If the result is static why does it need a server? Isn't it possible to make it so that it can simply be opened by the browser? Like:…
ninalanyon on HN
Rate limiting and subset cloning
From 1 comment
This seems like it has potential to create a lot of load on a site- are there settings to set how fast it clones or avoid images/videos? Is there a way to only get a subset of a…
gregwebs on HN
Questions
How does it differ from MHTML, wget, or HTTrack?
From 3 comments
What's the advantage compared to mhtml?
Departed7405 on HNHow its different then MHTML ??
G_o_D on HNReminds me of this. https://gwern.net/gwtar Compared to that is there anything kage does better?
shinryuu on HN
Why is --no-sandbox used with Chrome?
From 1 comment
Neat project, I like the idea. One thing from a quick read: you launch Chrome with --no-sandbox. Is there a good reason for that? Security wise it's probably not a good idea. If…
dimiprasakis on HN
Alternatives named
SingleFile
From 1 comment
I find SingleFile [0] a much more robust version of this. It strips out all the JavaScript too, but also packs everything into a single HTML file that is easy to transfer. Binary…
maxloh on HN
HTTrack
From 1 comment
I've been using httrack (https://www.httrack.com) to download wikis to read on flights, which isn't perfect but better than I'd found previously. I'll try this out, I'd be…
telesilla on HN
wget --mirror
From 1 comment
So this is like using wget --mirror except that it works on pages that require javascript, right?
rahimnathwani on HN
Teleport Pro
From 1 comment
Meet Teleport Pro
snowflaxxx on HN
gwtar
From 1 comment
Reminds me of this. https://gwern.net/gwtar Compared to that is there anything kage does better?
shinryuu on HN