Paper Clip (Save as HTML, Markdown and Text)

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Paper Clip (Save as HTML, Markdown and Text)

Edit and save selection as clean HTML, Markdown or Text file optimized for printing. Hotkey: Command + Shift + S.

سوئال سوراش، ئوبزور يېزىش ياكى قوليازمىنى پاش قىلىش.

ئاپتورى: schimon
بۈگۈن قاچىلانغىنى: 0
جەمئىي قاچىلانغىنى: 109
باھا نومۇرى: 1 0 0
نەشرى: 24.01.29
قۇرۇلغان ۋاقتى: 2023-05-10
يېڭىلانغان ۋاقتى: 2024-01-29
ئىجازەتنامىسى: MIT
قوللايدىغىنى: بارلىق بېكەتلەر

📎 Paper Clip

Save selected content to a clean HTML, Markdown or Plain Text file.

This userscript saves the common (root) HTML element, of given selection, and all of its child elements into a printing-optimized and valid (x)XHTML, Markdown or Text file. This program is useful in cases you want a tightly and quick reference without extra resources and media.

Features

Cut text;
Edit text as you type;
Instant save (no waiting time);
Remove all stylesheets and potential distractions;
Optimized for annotation, notes and printing;
Easy to manipulate XHTML, Markdown or Text;
Strip attributes of tags;
Omit privacy compromising contents (frames, media, scripts etc.);
Media urls are kept as references in Site Information (see example below);
Resulted filesize is as small as can be.

Work in Progress

Send text annotations via Email, Jabber/XMPP.
IRC and Matrix buttons will work on next update.

Motivation

This script was written because of the following reasons:

Some save-page extensions are not available to Falkon Web Browser.
The maintained save-page extensions are designed to save large portions of a webpage in order to make an authentic copy, hence unnecessary data (e.g. css, fonts, images etc.) is pulled, and may cause to a resulted file of 500KB sized up to 5MB sized and above.
FocusWriter Word Processor ignores hyperlinks, hence copy and paste task has to be made in a meticulous manner, which is both time consuming and might not always be accurate all the time.
LibreOffice takes time to load, so the copy and paste task might take between 30 to 60 seconds.
ODT files are often larger than an average subject HTML file.

Comparison

Tested on this page. This is a comparison of common available ways (default behaviour):

Software	Complete	Page	Selection
Save HTML	-	14 KiB	4 KiB
Wget	-	24 KiB	-
Falkon	350 KiB	24 KiB	-
Writer (ODT)	-	33 KiB	32 KiB
SingleFile	600 KiB	-	580 KiB
Save Page WE	1.3 MiB	-	-

Example Site Information

Tag	Value
url	https://www.corbettreport.com/5thgen/
date	Tue May 09 2023 15:29:39 GMT+0200
creator	i2p.schimon.paperclip
user-agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Wayland; Linux postmarketOS) Falkon/23.04.3
content-type-sourced	text/html
charset-sourced	UTF-8
viewport-imported	width=device-width,initial-scale=1
description-imported	We are in the middle of a world-changing war. . . .
generator-imported	Publii Open-Source CMS for Static Site
extracted-media-audio	https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode441_5th_gen.mp3?_=1
extracted-media-iframe	https://odysee.com/$/embed/@corbettreport:0/ep441-5thgen:0

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Upcoming changes

Aggregate mode; select part by part and save them all at once into a document; toolbar always shown as long as mode isn't done or cancelled.
~~Editable elements element.contentEditable = "true";~~
~~Remove elements;~~
~~Convert embedded elements (e.g. iframe) to links;~~ (cancelled)
~~Save links of embedded elements (e.g. iframe) to meta tags;~~ (cancelled)
~~Omit elements with no content (e.g. <tag></tag>);~~ (done)
~~Save images;~~ (cancelled. maybe relevant to HTMLZ)
Multiple modes (~~Markdown~~, PDF, Screenshot);
Save to HTMLZ;
Bookmarklet.

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