When I download html files the pictures in the file are often not visible

Have reviewed https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/28/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html Some elements such as js charts, polls etc, wont save correctly by Brave or Chrome.

Saving pages has a few issues;

  • If it’s heavy on javascript and relies on 3rd-party content to load
  • Has multi-level dependency’s. (so one script depends on another, then depends on another […])
  • If a site auto-generates page items on page load (xml/websocket etc).

If the chart was a simple image, that could be directly linked too. It should be easy to save Brave or any browser. Looking at what Chrome does (which Brave is a Chromium browser), we’re doing something similar.

That said, there is many 3rd-party programs that are more feature rich that’ll save pages, with configurable dependency levels.

Have previously used a few years back, https://www.httrack.com/ which has many features to clone a webpage.

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