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SingleFile is a browser addon to save a complete web page into a single HTML file. SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Safari, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera.
SingleFile can also be integrated with bookmark managers hoarder and linkding browser extensions. So your browser does the capture, which means you are already logged in, have dismissed the cookie banner, solved the capthas or whatever else annoyance is on the webpage.
ArchiveBox and I believe also Linkwarden use SingleFile (but as CLI from the server side) to capture web pages, as well as other tools and formats. This works well for simple/straightforward web pages, but not for annoying we pages with cookie banners, capthas, and other popups.
Singlefile is the only one that works reliably for me.
Linkwarden would have been awesome, but I had so many issues with it when I was self-hosting. I think it's improved since then, though.
For reddit, SingleFile HTML pages can be 20MB per file ! Which is huge for a simple discussion...
To reduce that bloated but still relevant site, redirect to any still working alternative like https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib or old reddit and decrease your file to less than 1MB/file.
SingleFile provides a faithful representation of the original webpage, so bloated webpages are indeed saved as bloated html files.
On the plus side you're getting an exact copy, but on the downside an exact copy may not be necessary and takes a huge amount of space.
You're right ! And because OP want to archive Reddit pages I propose an alternative to reduce that bloated site to a minimum :).
From my tests, it can go from 20MB to 700Bytes. IMO still big for a chat conversation but the readability from the alternative front-end is a + !