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automate-save-page-as
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*A quick hack for when `wget` doesn't cut it.*
**tl;dr Perform browser's "Save page as" (Ctrl+S) operation from command line without manual intervention**

This small bash script *simulates* a sequence of key presses which opens a given url in the browser, save the page (Ctrl+S), and close the browser tab/window (Ctrl+F4). Chained together, these operations allow you to use the "Save Page As" (Ctrl+S) programtically (currently you can use either of `google-chrome`, `chromium-browser` or `firefox`, and it's fairly straight forward to add support for your favorite browser).
*Examples:*
```
# Save your FB home page
$ ./save_page_as "www.facebook.com" --destination "/tmp/facebook_home_page.html"
```
```
# Use Firefox to open a web-page and save it in /tmp (the default name for the file (Page title) is used)
$ ./save_page_as "www.example.com" --browser "firefox" --destination "/tmp"
```
```
# Save a url with default name, but provide an additional suffix
$ ./save_page_as "www.example.com" --destination "/tmp" --suffix "-trial_save"
```
```
# List all available command line options.
$ ./save_page_as --help
save_page_as: Open the given url in a browser tab/window, perform 'Save As' operation and close the tab/window.
USAGE:
save_page_as URL [OPTIONS]
URL The url of the web page to be saved.
options:
-d, --destination Destination path. If a directory, then file is saved with default name inside the directory, else assumed to be full path of target file. Default = '.'
-s, --suffix An optional suffix string for the target file name (ignored if --destination arg is a full path)
-b, --browser Browser executable to be used (must be one of 'google-chrome' or 'firefox'). Default = 'google-chrome'.
--load-wait-time Number of seconds to wait for the page to be loaded (i.e., seconds to sleep before Ctrl+S is 'pressed'). Default = 4
--save-wait-time Number of seconds to wait for the page to be saved (i.e., seconds to sleep before Ctrl+F4 is 'pressed'). Default = 8
-h, --help Display this help message and exit.
```
The script needs `xdotool` installed (http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/): `sudo apt-get install xdotool` (for Ubuntu).
*Sidenote*: My particular use case while writing this script was crawling a bunch of web pages which were rendered almost entierly on client side using lots of javascript magic (thus saving output of `wget url` was useless). Since the browser is capable of rendering those pages, and also saving the post-render version on disk (using Ctrl+S), I wrote this script to automate the process (Tested on Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 myself).
Suggestions and/or pull requests are always welcome!
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FILE: save_page_as
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#!/bin/bash
set -e
set -u
set -o pipefail
# Assert existence of xdotool to begin with
if ! xdotool --help &>/dev/null; then
printf "ERROR: 'xdotool' is not present (or not in the PATH). Please visit http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/ to download it for your platform.\n" >&2
exit 1
fi
load_wait_time=4
save_wait_time=8
scriptname="$(basename "$0")"
destination="."
browser="google-chrome"
suffix=""
url=""
function print_usage() {
printf "\n%s: Open the given url in a browser tab/window, perform 'Save As' operation and close the tab/window.\n\n" "${scriptname}" >&2
printf "USAGE:\n %s URL [OPTIONS]\n\n" "${scriptname}" >&2
printf "URL The url of the web page to be saved.\n\n" >&2
printf "options:\n" >&2
printf " -d, --destination Destination path. If a directory, then file is saved with default name inside the directory, else assumed to be full path of target file. Default = '%s'\n" "${destination}" >&2
printf " -s, --suffix An optional suffix string for the target file name (ignored if --destination arg is a full path)\n" >&2
printf " -b, --browser Browser executable to be used (must be one of 'google-chrome', 'chromium-browser' or 'firefox'). Default = '%s'.\n" "${browser}" >&2
printf " --load-wait-time Number of seconds to wait for the page to be loaded (i.e., seconds to sleep before Ctrl+S is 'pressed'). Default = %s\n" "${load_wait_time}" >&2
printf " --save-wait-time Number of seconds to wait for the page to be saved (i.e., seconds to sleep before Ctrl+F4 is 'pressed'). Default = %s\n" "${save_wait_time}" >&2
printf " -h, --help Display this help message and exit.\n" >&2
}
while [ "$#" -gt 0 ]
do
case "$1" in
-d | --destination)
shift;
destination="$1"
shift
;;
-s | --suffix)
shift;
suffix="$1"
shift;
;;
-b | --browser)
shift;
browser="$1"
shift
;;
--load-wait-time)
shift;
load_wait_time="$1"
shift
;;
--save-wait-time)
shift;
save_wait_time="$1"
shift
;;
-h | --help)
print_usage
exit 0
;;
-*)
printf "ERROR: Unknown option: %s\n" "${1}">&2
print_usage
exit 1
;;
*) if [ ! -z "$url" ]; then
printf "ERROR: Expected exactly one positional argument (URL) to be present, but encountered a second one ('%s').\n\n" "${1}" >&2
print_usage
exit 1
fi
url="$1"
shift;
;;
esac
done
# Returns 1 if input param contains any non-printable or non-ascii character, else returns 0
# (Inspiration: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13596664/1857518)
function has_non_printable_or_non_ascii() {
LANG=C
if printf "%s" "${1}" | grep '[^ -~]\+' &>/dev/null; then
printf 1
else
printf 0
fi
}
function validate_input() {
if [[ -z "${url}" ]]; then
printf "ERROR: URL must be specified." >&2
print_usage
exit 1
fi
if [[ -d "${destination}" ]]; then
printf "INFO: The specified destination ('%s') is a directory path, will save file inside it with the default name.\n" "${destination}">&2
else
local basedir="$(dirname "${destination}")"
if [[ ! -d "${basedir}" ]]; then
printf "ERROR: Directory '%s' does not exist - Will NOT continue.\n" "${basedir}" >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
destination="$(readlink -f "$destination")" # Ensure absolute path
if [[ "${browser}" != "google-chrome" && "${browser}" != "chromium-browser" && "${browser}" != "firefox" ]]; then
printf "ERROR: Browser (%s) is not supported, must be one of 'google-chrome', 'chromium-browser' or 'firefox'.\n" "${browser}" >&2
exit 1
fi
if ! command -v "${browser}" &>/dev/null; then
printf "ERROR: Command '${browser}' not found. Make sure it is installed, and in path.\n" >&2
exit 1
fi
local num_regexp='^.[0-9]+$|^[0-9]+$|^[0-9]+.[0-9]+$' # Matches a valid number (in decimal notation)
if [[ ! "${load_wait_time}" =~ $num_regexp || ! "${save_wait_time}" =~ $num_regexp ]]; then
printf "ERROR: --load-wait-time (='%s'), and --save_wait_time(='%s') must be valid numbers.\n" "${load_wait_time}" "${load_wait_time}" >&2
exit 1
fi
if [[ $(has_non_printable_or_non_ascii "${destination}") -eq 1 || $(has_non_printable_or_non_ascii "${suffix}") -eq 1 ]]; then
printf "ERROR: Either --destination ('%s') or --suffix ('%s') contains a non ascii or non-printable ascii character(s). " "${destination}" "${suffix}" >&2
printf "'xdotool' does not mingle well with non-ascii characters (https://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/issues/detail?id=14).\n\n" >&2
printf '!!!! Will NOT proceed !!!!\n' >&2
exit 1
fi
}
validate_input
##############
# Launch ${browser}, and wait for the page to load
"${browser}" "${url}" &>/dev/null &
sleep ${load_wait_time}
# Find the id for the ${browser} window
browser_wid="$(xdotool search --sync --onlyvisible --class "${browser}" | head -n 1)"
wid_re='^[0-9]+$' # window-id must be a valid integer
if [[ ! "${browser_wid}" =~ ${wid_re} ]]; then
printf "ERROR: Unable to find X-server window id for browser.\n" >&2
exit 1
fi
# Activate the ${browser} window, and "press" ctrl+s
xdotool windowactivate "${browser_wid}" key --clearmodifiers "ctrl+s"
sleep 1 # Give 'Save as' dialog box time to show up
# Resolve the expected title name for save file dialog box (chrome & firefox differ in this regard)
if [[ "${browser}" == "firefox" ]]; then
savefile_dialog_title="Save as"
else
savefile_dialog_title="Save file"
fi
# Find window id for the "Save file" dialog box
savefile_wid="$(xdotool search --name "$savefile_dialog_title" | head -n 1)"
if [[ ! "${savefile_wid}" =~ ${wid_re} ]]; then
printf "ERROR: Unable to find window id for 'Save File' Dialog.\n" >&2
exit 1
fi
# Fix for Issue #1: Explicitly focus on the "name" field (works on both: gnome, and kde)
xdotool windowactivate "${savefile_wid}" key --delay 20 --clearmodifier "Alt+n"
# Check if we are using kde
is_kde=0
# Don't feel bad if DESKTOP_SESSION env variable is not present
set +u
if [[ "${DESKTOP_SESSION}" =~ ^kde-? ]]; then
is_kde=1
fi
set -u
if [[ ! -z "${suffix}" ]]; then
###########################
# Make sure that we are at correct position before typing the "suffix"
#
# If the user is using 'kde-plasma', then the full name of the file including the extension is highlighted
# in the name field, so simply pressing a Right key and adding suffix leads to incorrect result.
# Hence as a special case for 'kde-*' we move back 5 characters Left from the end before adding the suffix.
# Now this strategy is certainly not full proof and assumes that file extension is always 4 characters long ('html'),
# but this is the only fix I can think for this special case right now. Of course it's easy to tweak the number of
# Left key moves you need if you know your file types in advance.
if [[ "${is_kde}" -eq 1 ]]; then
printf "INFO: Desktop session is found to be '${DESKTOP_SESSION}', hence the full file name will be highlighted. " >&2
printf "Assuming extension .html to move back 5 character left before adding suffix (change accordingly if you need to).\n" >&2
xdotool windowactivate "${savefile_wid}" key --delay 40 --clearmodifier End Left Left Left Left Left
else
xdotool windowactivate "${savefile_wid}" key --delay 20 --clearmodifiers Right
fi
set -u
###########################
extraarg=""
if [[ "${suffix::1}}" == "-" ]]; then
extraarg="-"
fi
xdotool type --delay 10 --clearmodifiers "${extraarg}" "${suffix}"
fi
# Activate the 'Save File' dialog and type in the appropriate filename (depending on ${destination} value: 1) directory, 2) full path, 3) empty)
if [[ ! -z "${destination}" ]]; then
if [[ -d "${destination}" ]]; then
# Case 1: --destination was a directory.
xdotool windowactivate "${savefile_wid}" key --delay 20 --clearmodifiers Home
xdotool type --delay 10 --clearmodifiers "${destination}/"
else
# Case 2: --destination was full path.
xdotool windowactivate "${savefile_wid}" key --delay 20 --clearmodifiers "ctrl+a" "BackSpace"
xdotool type --delay 10 --clearmodifiers "${destination}"
fi
fi
xdotool windowactivate "${savefile_wid}" key --delay 20 --clearmodifiers Return
printf "INFO: Saving web page ...\n" >&2
# Wait for the file to be completely saved
sleep ${save_wait_time}
# Close the browser tab/window (Ctrl+w for KDE, Ctrl+F4 otherwise)
if [[ "${is_kde}" -eq 1 ]]; then
xdotool windowactivate "${browser_wid}" key --clearmodifiers "ctrl+w"
else
xdotool windowactivate "${browser_wid}" key --clearmodifiers "ctrl+F4"
fi
printf "INFO: Done!\n">&2
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