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 and run single-file via npx (npm and npx are installed with Node.js)
```
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.