Kage
Website archiver in Developer tools
Packages a whole website into a single binary for offline viewing, and some commenters call it a modern alternative to HTTrack. Critics say archived pages often break on banners, images and links.
Packages a whole website into a single binary for offline viewing, and some commenters call it a modern alternative to HTTrack. Critics say archived pages often break on banners, images and links.
29 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 20
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 69%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 20 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Enthusiastic praise from commenters
“This is awesome, we wanted an offline copy of someone's prototype”
Comment from 14 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” “I have been looking for something like this for weeks”
Comment from 23 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: KageOps – An open-source, local-first alternative to Devin” “I would use the shit out of this”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” - Comment from 17 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing”
- Comment from 22 Jul 2026 in “Advertise in ChatGPT”
Offline copies of websites
“I could see myself downloading the articles behind the first couple pages of hacker news with this”
Comment from 14 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” “This is quite useful tool, especially for the cases where internet access is limited”
Comment from 14 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” “This is awesome, we wanted an offline copy of someone's prototype”
Comment from 14 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” - Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Archives break images and pages
“disappointed that recreating the demo of archiving Paul Graham’s essays gave me a ZIM with broken images and broken Unicode symbols”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” “it's giving me `navigation failed: net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED`”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” “Currently, all of that is broken.”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” Fails on modal banners and overlays
“sounds like it'd fail for a lot of websites that do things like display some kind of modal banner”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” “the landing page footer is hard to reach due to infiniscroll, plus the Help overlay obscures two of the links”
Comment from 11 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Real product design inspiration turned into prompts for agents” README reads as AI-generated
“The README is LLM slop. This makes me assume the code is the same.”
Comment from 14 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” “The readme is AI slop, and incredibly grating to read.”
Comment from 14 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing”
What people said
25 of the 30 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the landing page footer is hard to reach due to infiniscroll, plus the Help overlay obscures two of the links”
“I have been looking for something like this for weeks”
“Folk (like me!) love Kago.”
“it automatically links them to the right code blocks”
“it save all the important things that you are doing with your agents.”
“nice job and good inspiration”
“sounds like it'd fail for a lot of websites that do things like display some kind of modal banner”
“Currently, all of that is broken.”
“disappointed that recreating the demo of archiving Paul Graham’s essays gave me a ZIM with broken images and broken Unicode symbols”
“all the content and CSS work”
“How is kage an improvement?”
“I would use the shit out of this”
“it's giving me `navigation failed: net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED`”
“This is awesome, we wanted an offline copy of someone's prototype”
“The README is LLM slop. This makes me assume the code is the same.”
“Binary app is a really bad way of storing data.”
“Kage looks promising if OP can combine SingleFile reproduction quality with the HTTPTrack spidering approach.”
“The readme is AI slop, and incredibly grating to read.”
“If the result is static why does it need a server?”
“It is actually a modern alternative to HTTrack.”
“This is quite useful tool, especially for the cases where internet access is limited”
“Nice idea! fwiw, false positives and all, but the Windows 11 default Windows Security doesn't like it”
“I could see myself downloading the articles behind the first couple pages of hacker news with this”
“you launch Chrome with --no-sandbox. Is there a good reason for that? Security wise it's probably not a good idea.”
“even though it's nifty you can package up a whole site as a single binary”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.