Steam Guide Saver

Saves any Steam Community guide as a self-contained offline HTML file. Strips Steam's chrome and replaces it with a clean Wikipedia-style reading layout, inlines all images as WebP (GIFs preserved with animation), includes a floating table of contents, and a tap-to-zoom lightbox. YouTube embeds are replaced with titled links.

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Author

Camarron

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Version

1.0.0

Created

2026-04-15

Updated

2026-04-15

Size

27 KB

License

MIT

Applies to

steamcommunity.com

Adds a Save Offline HTML button to any Steam Community guide page.
Clicking it downloads a fully self-contained .html file you can read
on any device — desktop, phone, or Steam Deck — without an internet connection.

Features

Clean reading layout — strips Steam's navigation, sidebar, comments,
and branding. Replaces them with a minimal Wikipedia-style presentation on a white
background with readable typography.
Fully offline images — all guide images are fetched via the extension's
network context (bypassing CORS), compressed to WebP at high quality, and embedded
directly into the file as base64 data URIs. No internet connection needed to view them.
Animated GIF support — GIFs are detected and passed through raw,
preserving animation rather than collapsing them to a single frame.
Tap-to-zoom lightbox — clicking any static image opens a full-resolution
version in an overlay. Works on desktop and touch screens. Press Escape or tap outside
to dismiss.
Table of contents — automatically generated from the guide's own section
structure and displayed inline at the top of the document.
Floating TOC button — a small floating button appears once you scroll
past the inline table of contents, giving you quick access to section navigation from
anywhere in the document. Disappears when the inline TOC scrolls back into view.
Mobile and desktop aware — the saved file uses CSS media queries to
adapt its layout for touch devices and pointer devices independently, with appropriately
sized tap targets and panel positioning on each.
YouTube embed handling — embedded YouTube videos are replaced with a
plain linked title fetched at save time from YouTube's oEmbed API, so the reader knows
the content existed and can follow the link if they have a connection.
Progress indicator — a progress bar tracks image processing during the
save operation, which can take a moment on image-heavy guides.

Compatibility

Tested with Violentmonkey and Tampermonkey.
Greasemonkey is not recommended — its implementation of
GM_xmlhttpRequest is more restricted and may prevent images from loading
correctly in the saved file.
Works on all steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/ guide pages.

Notes

Image-heavy guides may take 20–60 seconds to save depending on the number and size of
images. The progress bar will keep you informed.
Steam caps guide image uploads at 2MB per image, so saved files are unlikely to grow
unreasonably large even for comprehensive guides.