> As I said, PATCH welcome, I admired many times I don't have ability to build a > complex archive functionality on url.el or wget or curl.
I have found the following solution [1] using wget: wget --mirror -p --convert-links -P ./LOCAL-DIR WEBSITE-URL This will not bundle the page into a single file, but it is better than nothing. org-attach does not have to attach exactly one file. [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/411540/how-to-get-wget-to-download-exact-same-web-page-html-as-browser Best, Ihor stardiviner <numbch...@gmail.com> writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > > Matthew Lundin <m...@imapmail.org> writes: > >> Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> It does not mean that attaching URL directly is not worth including >>> into org. This sounds pretty common use case, especially considering >>> the number of packages providing similar feature. You mentioned >>> org-board, but there is also org-download and org-web-tools. >> >> My uneasiness has more to do with the specificity of the dependence on >> monolith and the way that is hard-coded into the patch. When it comes to >> patches, I think priority should go to those that are configurable, >> accessible, and useful for everyone as opposed to those that have >> hard-coded work-flows or highly-specific user configurations. > > I don't think it's hardcoded, As I said in my first email, It's an > `defcustom', > isn't it? User totally can change that. And I used `executable-find', the > value > will be `nil' when monolith is not available. And I don't have ability to > archive same functionality with wget or curl. And as I said before, PATCH > welcome. > >> >>> I agree that monolith is completely uncommon tool and I would not expect >>> the majority of users to have it installed, but the same functionality >>> utilising built-in url.el (as a default) should be acceptable. >> >> The question is: which functionality? A simple downloading tool or a >> full archival tool? Achieving similar functionality to org-board or >> monolith would a big task, since they aim to download an archival >> version of a webpage (including all resources). In addition, with >> archiving you also quickly run into the complexity of versioning based >> on time archived. There's also the challenge of mapping the downloaded >> files to metadata (specifically the original url). Org-board currently >> handles both of these very well. > > If you mean adding a timestamp and original URL, I don't think its our > argument > point, because user totally can do it manually, or automatic this task in some > kind of way. WDYT? > >> >> I suppose there would be a few options depending on what the aims are: >> >> 1. At the simple end, include little more than than a quick and dirty >> way of downloading a single resource (html, pdf, jpeg) using url.el >> or wget (or optionally, monolith) and putting that in the attachment >> folder. Those who want full archiving of all resources could use >> other tools like org-board or org-web-tools. > > the [u] url downloading method already did the simple task. > >> >> 2. At the (much) more complex end, it would be to code out a robust >> archiving solution on top of url.el or wget. > > As I said, PATCH welcome, I admired many times I don't have ability to build a > complex archive functionality on url.el or wget or curl. > > Isn't Org Mode build up from small things? Can just become a big tool at once? > >> >> 3. Another, possibly simpler option... Add a command to the dispatcher >> that allows the user to invoke a custom function that is called with >> the attachment directory as the default-directory. This would enable >> more end-user flexibility, such as the ability to use >> wkhtmtoimage/wkhtmltopdf, monolith, phantom.js, archive.is, etc. >> > > This is leaved to `defcustom' option. I will improve the download function to > have enough elasticity. > > - -- > [ stardiviner ] > I try to make every word tell the meaning that I want to express. > > Blog: https://stardiviner.github.io/ > IRC(freenode): stardiviner, Matrix: stardiviner > GPG: F09F650D7D674819892591401B5DF1C95AE89AC3 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQFIBAEBCAAyFiEE8J9lDX1nSBmJJZFAG13xyVromsMFAl7QbYMUHG51bWJjaGls > ZEBnbWFpbC5jb20ACgkQG13xyVromsOFvAgAjTPtt5ZikNZnkp1gfuEGunVzblk6 > D6O+qgZAamT0EpR2nwK9U+x470KZAhXiLURkVb0l9/6uvA6MQZtj+umX/Qer/6bw > vB4RICWenFKyyBMy9U1pZ9WzTNw2ZNfeaEiJ0XlgXx9ZPGjBgcLi/7FSM4NybV4O > qbGwHbp4AzZ4mJOrMchNwlQfDYpg381xDewnHeuwtkVeBc34HpuFEGYKdmtOJ16S > mnL/5LrbI7MahlIZuiqyAzeyU3DkSvFOC/ovvch9YlAk1SeK/BslUcaGrwl/Il70 > XG/28XaAvVW2OYrO9vOmwpdoguQqARhKeMuof6p85waf1OF8itd97P95Lw== > =V/fu > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Ihor Radchenko, PhD, Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano) State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China Email: yanta...@gmail.com, ihor_radche...@alumni.sutd.edu.sg