Turns out it's using another project by the same author: https://github.com/tamnd/ascii-gif

The script used for the demo is at https://github.com/tamnd/kage/blob/01e75b87ecc893bbba7943c63... and has a comment showing how to run it:

  ascii-gif render docs/demo/kage.tape -o docs/static/demo.gif

Cool!

It would be especially cool to have a version that didn't require the separate serving process - even though it's nifty you can package up a whole site as a single binary.

Maybe a single HTML entrypoint shim with a bit of javascript that could index into an archive (potentially embedded) of the site's content?

kage serve $HOME/data/kage/paulgraham.com

If the result is static why does it need a server? Isn't it possible to make it so that it can simply be opened by the browser? Like:

$ firefox $HOME/data/kage/paulgraham.com

Then the result would be useable on machines without kage nstalled.

It strips out all the JavaScript too, but also packs everything into a single HTML file that is easy to transfer. Binary assets (like web fonts and images) are packed as base64 strings.

They also offer a CLI powered by Puppeteer. [1]

[0]: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/singlefile

[1]: https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/single-file-cli

No tracking, no network calls, no surprises.

Won't comment on a project (though idea seems interesting) but this in README is a tell for me ;)

  pandoc --from html --to epub --output /PATH/TO/FILE.epub https://example.com

In any case, cool stuff :)

It's one of the reasons I've become a bigger fan of RSS over time. A feed from 10-ish years ago is often more usable today than a carefully preserved (application) website.

Compared to that is there anything kage does better?

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html

https://redbean.dev

(Certificates just expired for justine's website, just ignore the warning.)

But will look into this now, see if we can swap some stuff out. We’ve really liked the idea of an offline mirror, makes a lot of collaboration use cases simpler

I would recommend an add-on or new feature to detect and remove cookie banners / annoying popups that open on load (eg. sign up to my mailing list).

listing a few examples form fastText could help you.

You might also have the opposite problem though: some websites have content in the base html (so it's searchable by Google and they get views) and remove it on load (so you have to pay).

Capturing the initial html and comparing it to the final version could give you some hints and allow you to repair the removed content.

Best of luck with the project!

Is the code also AI slop?

for an entire website though of many pages I can see this can be useful.

So I don't quite get whats the point of kage? What does it do that print-to-PDF won't already do? The resulting .pdf's contain all the content, and also include the original URL and creation date, etc. How is kage an improvement?