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Save complete web pages as a single HTML file

Category

Archive

License

Creative Commons

Platforms

Windows macOS Linux

Released

2019

Path

c:\Monolith\monolith.exe

Benefits

Can archive complex HTML pages; good for saving documentation with full images and stylesheets

Examples

monolith.exe https://lyrics.github.io/db/P/Portishead/Dummy/Roads/ -o %title%.%timestamp%.html

monolith.exe https://cfdocs.org/cfexecute -o %title%.%timestamp%.html

"c:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --headless --window-size=1920,1080 --run-all-compositor-stages-before-draw --virtual-time-budget=9000 --incognito --dump-dom https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/ | monolith - -I -b https://cfsummit.adobeevents.com/ -o cfsummit2025.html

Try it

• Archive a local sample page
  Archive the local sample.html via a file:// URL so monolith reads it straight off disk. Uses the wrapper's archive() helper, a typed CFML method that mirrors monolith's full README option set (audio/css/js/font/image/video filters, isolation, custom base URL, encoding, MHTML mode, custom UA, cookies, request timeout, and whitelist/blacklist domain arrays). The HTTP equivalent (http://<server>:<port>/TryIt/_samples/sample.html) does NOT work because Application.cfc routes .html requests through CFML and serves index.cfm content instead.
• Archive a public URL with domain blacklist
  Archive https://lyrics.github.io/db/P/Portishead/Dummy/Roads/ via archive() with blacklistDomains, which maps to monolith's `-B -d <domain>` flags from the README - assets coming from any blacklisted host are dropped. The example list blocks Google Analytics / Tag Manager, DoubleClick and Facebook trackers so the resulting archive is leaner and free of third-party content. Pass whitelistDomains instead to flip the meaning to 'allow only these'.
• Archive a JS-rendered page via Obscura
  Two-stage pipeline: Obscura (a single-binary headless browser, no Chrome/Node required) fetches the URL with a real browser engine and dumps the post-JavaScript-execution DOM HTML to stdout; monolith then bundles that rendered DOM into a single self-contained HTML file with -b set to the original URL so relative asset links still resolve. Mirrors monolith's README headless-Chrome example (`chromium --headless --dump-dom URL | monolith - -I -b URL -o out.html`) without requiring Chromium to be installed.

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# Monolith - Help

Source: https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith

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monolith 2.10.1

CLI tool and library for saving web pages as a single HTML file

Usage: monolith.exe [OPTIONS] <TARGET>

Arguments:
  <TARGET>  URL or file path, use - for STDIN

Options:
  -a, --no-audio                      Remove audio sources
  -b, --base-url <http://localhost/>  Set custom base URL
  -B, --blacklist-domains             Treat specified domains as blacklist
  -c, --no-css                        Remove CSS
  -C, --cookie-file <cookies.txt>     Specify cookie file
  -d, --domain <example.com>          Specify domains to use for white/black-listing
  -e, --ignore-errors                 Ignore network errors
  -E, --encoding <UTF-8>              Enforce custom charset
  -f, --no-frames                     Remove frames and iframes
  -F, --no-fonts                      Remove fonts
  -i, --no-images                     Remove images
  -I, --isolate                       Cut off document from the Internet
  -j, --no-js                         Remove JavaScript
  -k, --insecure                      Allow invalid X.509 (TLS) certificates
  -M, --no-metadata                   Exclude timestamp and source information
  -n, --unwrap-noscript               Replace NOSCRIPT elements with their contents
  -o, --output <result.html>          File to write to, use - for STDOUT
  -q, --quiet                         Suppress verbosity
  -t, --timeout <60>                  Adjust network request timeout
  -u, --user-agent <Firefox>          Set custom User-Agent string
  -v, --no-video                      Remove video sources
  -h, --help                          Print help
  -V, --version                       Print version
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