How to save a web page?

Life Technology
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I wanted to save a screen shot of a few webpages (for posterity) and I have done prt screen, even with F11 but that still does not save the page in its entirety (I don’t have a very big screen). Clicking on save as’, does work but I know in time, web pages can and will be removed from websites. Is there any other way to save these web pages, as files and not worry about opening them in web browsers.

Thanks.

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If your using Firefox then get the ScreenGrab addon.

If not, then

  1. ctrl+shift+PrtSc
  2. open ‘paint’: Start—>Programs—>Accesories—>Paint or Simply: Start–>Run–> and type ‘mspaint’
  3. Paste (ctrl+v) into paint
  4. Save the image in the format you want.
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Thanks. However, it is only a snapshot of the screen not the whole page.

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A bit convoluted would be to right click on all the images and save them and then go to the source code of the page (different browsers have different ways of finding that), ctrl +A (select all) and ctrl+C (copy) and then ctrl +v (paste) it into another document.

Save the new document with an html extension and you should be able to do. assuming of course the website isn’t to complicated.

Otherwise if its more complicated Snagit is a really useful application that should be able to capture the whole of the image, not just what’s visable. http://www.techsmith.com/download/snagittrial.asp

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[quote=“divea”]Clicking on save as’, does work but I know in time, web pages can and will be removed from websites. Is there any other way to save these web pages, as files and not worry about opening them in web browsers.

Thanks.[/quote]

This should not matter, divea. Once you have saved it, it doesn’t matter if the original page changes. You will see the html page wherever you saved it and a little folder beside it with all the images and stuff. No matter what happens online, this cannot be changed.

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[quote=“irishstu”][quote=“divea”]Clicking on save as’, does work but I know in time, web pages can and will be removed from websites. Is there any other way to save these web pages, as files and not worry about opening them in web browsers.

Thanks.[/quote]

This should not matter, divea. Once you have saved it, it doesn’t matter if the original page changes. You will see the html page wherever you saved it and a little folder beside it with all the images and stuff. No matter what happens online, this cannot be changed.[/quote]

Thanks.

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Another option is you could print it to a PDF file. That would be easier to share with others, too.

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I’d go with this option as well.

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You can save a webpage as a single file in Opera and IE - it has the same format as a MIME email - i.e. html and all the images end up in one .mht file.

The only problem is if the page contains a script it might well not open. Still you can strip any scripts out by hand if that is an issue. Oh and it only works in Opera or IE, not Chrome or Firefox.