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Sweet idea! I would especially like to be able to capture videos and pictures too.

I suspect for saving videos, a good approach would be some sort of proxy + headless browser combination, where the proxy is responsible for saving a copy of all data the browser requests for.

Thoughts?

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Thanks! Pictures should work, I'll check more tags first thing tomorrow when I start working on improving it.

I use youtube-dl for youtube and other popular web services myself. Embedding a video source as a data URL could in theory work, but it'd be quite a long base64 line. Also, editing .html files with tens or hundreds of megabytes of base64 in them would perhaps be less than convenient.

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