Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing
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Kage is a useful open-source tool for offline website archiving, moderately relevant.
Summary
Kage is a Go-based CLI tool that clones websites into offline-readable folders by rendering pages in headless Chrome, snapshotting the DOM after JavaScript settles, then stripping all scripts and rewriting assets to local paths. It supports breadth-first crawling with sitemap seeding, robots.txt compliance, idempotent re-rendering, and can pack mirrors into ZIM archives or self-contained binaries that serve themselves without any dependencies. The tool is installable via `go install`, prebuilt binaries, or a Docker image that bundles Chromium.
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