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How can I download HTML?
Hello! I just finished the HTML and css course on codecademy and want to start writing it on my own now. I have been trying to figure out how to get html on my computer and based off what I found online I used notepad to write my code, but I don’t like how it doesn’t give those error notifications. I also used sublime text but for some reason it’s not working (probably my code but idk it works with notepad). I’ve done Java and Python before and I’m starting to think getting HTML on my computer probably isn’t the same process as getting java. Do I have to download CSS separately? Ik these are pretty basic questions lol but if someone could help me out with getting html (and maybe CSS 😳) on my computer(windows) I would really appreciate it!
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HTTRACK works like a champ for copying the contents of an entire site. This tool can even grab the pieces needed to make a website with active code content work offline. I am amazed at the stuff it can replicate offline.
This program will do all you require of it.
Happy hunting!
Wget is a classic command-line tool for this kind of task. It comes with most Unix/Linux systems, and you can get it for Windows too. On a Mac, Homebrew is the easiest way to install it (brew install wget).
You'd do something like:
wget -r --no-parent http://example.com/songs/
For more details, see Wget Manual and its examples, or e.g. these:
wget: Download entire websites easy
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Hit Ctrl+S and save it as an HTML file (not MHTML). Then, in the <head> tag, add a <base href="http://downloaded_site's_address.com"> tag. For this webpage, for example, it would be <base href="http://stackoverflow.com">.
This makes sure that all relative links point back to where they're supposed to instead of to the folder you saved the HTML file in, so all of the resources (CSS, images, JavaScript, etc.) load correctly instead of leaving you with just HTML.
See MDN for more details on the <base> tag.
The HTML, CSS and JavaScript are sent to your computer when you ask for them on a HTTP protocol (for instance, when you enter a url on your browser), therefore, you have these parts and could replicate on your own pc or server. But if the website has a server-side code (databases, some type of authentication, etc), you will not have access to it, and therefore, won't be able to replicate on your own pc/server.
you can't download that, it doesn't exist on the server. The server sends the HTML, the browser's job is to display it. And part of that (can be) is showing the text.
In fact, many web pages are rather empty, and load the relevant content as you read along.
So, what you'll need is a working browser, which displays your text, then you need to get that text.
You'd usually do that by actually remote-controlling a browser from a scripting language: you start the browser in a special "daemon" mode, you connect to it, and using a specially crafted browser control interface (WebDriver) you tell it to go to a URL, wait a second to let the browser render what you'd see on screen, normally, and then tell it to save as a plain text file.
Personally, I'd use pandoc for that.
pandoc -t plain 'https://example.com/something/'
To save to a file:
pandoc -t plain 'https://example.com/something/' -o output.txt
Obviously this is only going to work well for mostly text websites that don't rely on javascript to populate the page.