SingleFile CLI (Command Line Interface)

Introduction

SingleFile can be launched from the command line by running it into a (headless) browser.

It runs through Deno as a standalone script injected into the web page via the Chrome DevTools Protocol instead of being embedded into a WebExtension.

Installation

SingleFile can be run without installing it, just download the executable file and save it in the directory of your choice here: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli/releases

Make sure Chrome or a Chromium-based browser is installed in the default folder. Otherwise you might need to set the --browser-executable-path option to help SingleFile locating the path of the executable file.

Installation with Docker

• Installation from Docker Hub

  docker pull capsulecode/singlefile

  docker tag capsulecode/singlefile singlefile

• Manual installation

  git clone --depth 1 --recursive https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli.git

  cd single-file-cli

  docker build --no-cache -t singlefile .

• Run

  docker run singlefile "https://www.wikipedia.org"

• Run and redirect the result into a file

  docker run singlefile "https://www.wikipedia.org" > wikipedia.html

• Run and mount a volume to get the saved file in the current directory

  • Save one page

    docker run -v %cd%:/usr/src/app/out singlefile "https://www.wikipedia.org" wikipedia.html (Windows)

    docker run -v $(pwd):/usr/src/app/out singlefile "https://www.wikipedia.org" wikipedia.html (Linux/UNIX)

  • Save one or multiple pages by using the filename template (see --filename-template option)

    docker run -v %cd%:/usr/src/app/out singlefile "https://www.wikipedia.org" --dump-content=false (Windows)

    docker run -v $(pwd):/usr/src/app/out singlefile "https://www.wikipedia.org" --dump-content=false (Linux/UNIX)

• An alternative docker file can be found here https://github.com/screenbreak/SingleFile-dockerized. It allows you to save pages from the command line interface or through an HTTP server.

Manual installation

• Install Deno

• There are 3 ways to download the code of SingleFile, choose the one you prefer:

  • Install with npm (npm is installed with Node.js) and run with npx

    npm install "single-file-cli"
    npx single-file ...

    You can also install SingleFile globally with -g when running npm install.

  • Download and unzip manually the master archive provided by Github

    unzip master.zip .
    cd single-file-cli-master

  • Download with git

    git clone --depth 1 --recursive https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli.git
    cd single-file-cli

• Make single-file executable (Linux/Unix/BSD etc.).

  chmod +x single-file

Run

• Syntax

  single-file <url> [output] [options ...]

• Display help

  single-file --help

• Examples

  • Dump the HTML content of https://www.wikipedia.org into the console

  single-file https://www.wikipedia.org --dump-content

  • Save https://www.wikipedia.org into wikipedia.html in the current folder

  single-file https://www.wikipedia.org wikipedia.html

  • Save a list of URLs stored into list-urls.txt in the current folder

  single-file --urls-file=list-urls.txt

  • Save https://www.wikipedia.org and crawl its internal links with the query parameters removed from the URL

  single-file https://www.wikipedia.org --crawl-links=true --crawl-inner-links-only=true --crawl-max-depth=1 --crawl-rewrite-rule="^(.*)\\?.*$ $1"

  • Save https://www.wikipedia.org and external links only

  single-file https://www.wikipedia.org --crawl-links=true --crawl-inner-links-only=false --crawl-external-links-max-depth=1 --crawl-rewrite-rule="^.*wikipedia.*$"

Compile executables

• Compile executables into /dist

./compile.sh

License

SingleFile and SingleFile CLI are licensed under AGPL. Code derived from third-party projects is licensed under MIT. Please contact me at gildas.lormeau <at> gmail.com if you are interested in licensing the SingleFile code for a commercial service or product.