Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
Kage is a new command-line tool that clones websites into static, offline-ready folders by stripping out all JavaScript and tracking elements. It uses a headless browser to capture the final rendered state of a page, ensuring long-term accessibility without dependencies on external servers.
Why it matters
It provides a robust solution for digital preservation and offline reading, mitigating the risk of 'link rot' and dependency on fragile, script-heavy web infrastructure.
kage (影, "shadow") clones a website into a folder you can browse offline, with every script stripped out. It opens each page in real headless Chrome, waits for the page to settle, snapshots the DOM a human would have seen, then deletes all the JavaScript and pulls the CSS, images, and fonts down to local paths. What lands on disk looks like the live site and runs no code.
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