Re: [Feature] add a new org-attach dispatcher command to offline save web page

[Ihor Radchenko]

> AFAICT, org-board uses the following options, which limit the archiving
> to a single page and all its resources:
>
> wget -e robots=off --page-requisites --adjust-extension --convert-links [...]

This is certainly better. I believe that wget would be a better default
(with right flags). It is much more likely to be installed for average
user.

> You can also create a warc (web archive) file with wget, but then you
> need a web archive replayer to view it, which is not exactly convenient.

Interesting. I did not know about warc.

Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> As I said, PATCH welcome, I admired many times I don't have ability to 
>>> build a
>>> complex archive functionality on url.el or wget or curl.
>>
>> I have found the following solution [1] using wget:
>>
>> wget --mirror -p --convert-links -P ./LOCAL-DIR WEBSITE-URL
>>
>
> I don't think --mirror is what we want this context, since that will
> initiate a recursive download of the entire site. (Ironically, my IP is
> now banned from a personal blog that provides a how-to for using wget
> after I tried to run the above command on it.) From the wget manual:
>
>     -m
>     --mirror
>         Turn on options suitable for mirroring.  This option turns on 
> recursion and
>         time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory 
> listings.
>         It is currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf --no-remove-listing.
>
> AFAICT, org-board uses the following options, which limit the archiving
> to a single page and all its resources:
>
> wget -e robots=off --page-requisites --adjust-extension --convert-links [...]
>
>> This will not bundle the page into a single file, but it is better than
>> nothing. org-attach does not have to attach exactly one file.
>
> You can also create a warc (web archive) file with wget, but then you
> need a web archive replayer to view it, which is not exactly convenient.
>
> Best,
>
> Matt
>

-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong 
University, Xi'an, China
Email: yantar92@gmail.com, ihor_radchenko@alumni.sutd.edu.sg