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I don't see any documentation at all, like what browsers are supported, etc. :/

Me neither, it really would benefit from a better documentation since I like the idea a lot.

I just tried it out and it seems to be tied to Chrome. Since I use Firefox and Chromium as my daily drivers this does not work for my case. I understand that they probably rely on some Chrome internals to dig through the content, a SOCKS Proxy approach would have worked better and would have no need to switch between a "save" and "serve" mode. But then again I was only scraping the top of it because of the lack of browser support. Will keep an eye on this one though!

While it lacks a search feature last I checked there's always https://github.com/davidfstr/webcrystal

One .py file. Only one dependency (urllib3).n with a little love the concept could become a full transparent proxy.

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