How Do You Save Pages?
December 17th, 2006 by Michael Gray in Grayhat SEO, ToolsIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Read my top posts or learn more about Michael Gray. Want more frequent updates follow me on Twitter. Thanks for visiting!
I’m a big fan of delicious I use it all the time, and I use regularly to bookmark almost everything. However today I wanted to bookmark something in the New York Times I knew I would want next year. The problem is the NEW YORK TIMES IS STUPID and they put things behind the walled garden after two weeks unless your name happens to be GoogleBot and your IP resolves to Mountain View (You Know I really hate that they get away with that cloaking bullshit and nobody gives a crap or does anything about it, but I digress). So I tried to think of a way to save the page so I could come back to it. I thought Yahoo 360 had a way to save pages but I logged in and couldn’t find it. I tried saving it in my experimental google account but it only saved the bookmark, not the full page. In the end I ended up just printing it, but that’s so 20th century. I know there has to be a way to bookmark it and save the real page somewhere before it goes into the vault of CLOAKING SPAMMERS.
So how do you save pages?
Sphere It
December 17th, 2006 at 8:18 pm
It’s not cloaking - it’s “conditional auto-redirecting” :-). Come on, you KNOW Google would NEVER permit even sites they like to do cloaking, right? See http://blog.outer-court.com/forum/79322.html if you want to chime in…
December 17th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
http://www.furl.net
December 17th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Scrapbook plugin for Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/427/
December 17th, 2006 at 9:36 pm
How about File->Save Page As?
December 17th, 2006 at 11:49 pm
Try Yahoo’s MyWeb. Interesting since they own del.icio.us. Guess it’s that “peanut butter” problem. From their help page:
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/myweb2/myweb2-11.html
which answers the question: “I read that you can save a copy of a page, save a link, or do both. What’s the difference?”
December 18th, 2006 at 12:02 am
I use furl.
G-Man
December 18th, 2006 at 12:19 am
NetSnippets,great little app. Creates a local copy of the web page and can do a lot more too.
Free and professional version. Free version good enough for what you need it to do
December 18th, 2006 at 1:34 am
Another vote for Furl here… 5 gigs, I think?
December 18th, 2006 at 1:35 am
Safari, File -> Save As -> Web Archive
December 18th, 2006 at 3:14 am
I’ve never had a problem with the standard bookmarks. I use a Firefox plugin called “Add Bookmark Here” (I love it) Once and a while I export my bookmarks and email them to my gmail account as a backup. Furl sounds interesting. I think I’ll give it a try.
December 18th, 2006 at 5:34 am
Add this
&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
at the end of the URL. The link placed in their feeds will always work. So either add those parameters to the URL or subscribe to their feeds.
Only for NY Times.
December 18th, 2006 at 9:01 am
Ok Furl does what I want Thanks everyone. for those interested here’s a firefox plugin
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1781/
December 18th, 2006 at 11:49 am
The Scrapbook plugin, which was mentioned earlier, is great.
I’ll try that Furl option as well — thanks.
December 18th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Google Notebook also does it, in a kinda neat way… If you use the Notebook plugin, you select the text that you’re interested in saving… Notebook stores that text along with the URL.
December 18th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
Check out Looksmart/Furl. They’re a huge archiving/bookmarking service. Disclosure: the company I work for consults to them. But trust me, Furl rocks.
December 19th, 2006 at 3:06 am
I’ll add my vote for the Firefox Scrapbook plugin. Super-useful for long-haul flights etc.
December 19th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
+1 for Scrapbook as it is great for offline reading.
For me personally, I actually use two systems to have a local and cloud copy. The local would be Scrapbook and the cloud would be the new Yahoo bookmarks which saves the page. This takes about 2 seconds and provides a backup for me.
I use to usd Google Notebook which is horrible IMO. It does not render the pages correctly and the oddly enough the search functionality is atrocious.
December 24th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
The firefox scrapbook plugin.
Or maybe bookmark google’s cache?
December 26th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
You could also try Fleck. While you save, you might want to add a note on the page why you saved it
(Fleck is an easy new annotation service by some Dutch guys)
January 5th, 2007 at 5:39 am
I’m also a big fan of Google notebook, certainly does the job for me.
Ian
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:01 am
There is also the MHT format. It is built into Internet Explorer, but requires a plugin for Firefox. Saves the page as a single file, graphics included.
It even includes a comment in the code with the original URL in it.
One downside: SOMETIMES a page cannot be saved. Happens very rarely though. Sometimes a slow loading page or one that has too many IFRAMEs(again slow loading).