SingleFile
Hacker ApprovedRanked 10 of 70 browser extensions by recommenders
Saves full web pages as one HTML file, including logged-in pages other tools miss. Main caveat: each capture is manual and needs browser access.
Saves full web pages as one HTML file, including logged-in pages other tools miss. Main caveat: each capture is manual and needs browser access.
38 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 34
- criticize it
- 4
- approval share
- 89%
Recommended in 10 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 34 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 8.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 10 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, 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
Saves articles and pages for later
“If i find any article that i think is interesting i use SingleFile to download a local copy”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline” “I have used single-file to download from archive.ph and uploaded it to github”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “What Young Workers Are Doing to AI-Proof Themselves” “I have used single-file to download from archive.ph”
Comment from 22 Mar 2026 in “What Young Workers Are Doing to AI-Proof Themselves” - Comment from 27 Oct 2026 in “Websites Should Be Printable”
Captures logged-in and paywalled pages
“this enables archiving pages from my browser that Karakeep cannot scrape and bookmark due to paywalls or bot protection”
Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Perkeep – Personal storage system for life” “It also works with SingleFile to archive logged-in sites.”
Comment from 7 Jan 2026 in “A tab hoarder's journey to sanity” “so it archives what I'm seeing / gets around logins etc”
Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Perkeep – Personal storage system for life” Free, simple and reliable
“Love love love SingleFile too. The FF extension works pretty well for a clean save.”
Comment from 14 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” “Those I save with SingleFile and attach in LinkDing manually. Simple and works!”
Comment from 17 Sep 2026 in “Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep” “it's a very elegant solution, and not needlessly overcomplicated”
Comment from 14 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing” - Comment from 12 Nov 2025 in “Perkeep – Personal storage system for life”
Works with other archiving tools
“Those I save with SingleFile and attach in LinkDing manually. Simple and works!”
Comment from 17 Sep 2026 in “Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep” “SingleFile can send to self-hosted LinkWarden. So good”
Comment from 17 Sep 2026 in “Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep”
Other browser extensions people recommend
The four most recommended other browser extensions, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SponsorBlock | 137 | 4 | 97% | 13 | — | Approved |
| Firefox Multi-Account Containers | 76 | 13 | 85% | 10 | 7.5 yrs3 owners | Approved |
| NoScript | 61 | 11 | 85% | 12 | 10 yrs4 owners | Approved |
| Claude in Chrome | 53 | 42 | 56% | 9 | — | — |
| SingleFileThis page | 34 | 4 | 89% | 10 | — | Approved |
What people said
36 of the 42 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I use single file to download and the print as pdf”
“i prefer and very often use”
“If you check what kind of stuff SingleFile does, you will find a list of things Firefox is not doing.”
“SingleFile saves everything in a convenient, working, single file.”
“SingleFile can send to self-hosted LinkWarden. So good”
“Those I save with SingleFile and attach in LinkDing manually. Simple and works!”
“Another very useful project is SingleFile. I was ecstatic when I found out about its existence.”
“Web-based software is easy to extract (singlefile)”
“I couldn't get it to do what I want so I built my own”
“My main friction with it is having to manually capture pages I want to keep.”
“Singlefile does that much better than most”
“I highly recommend reading the singlefile source”
“it's a very elegant solution, and not needlessly overcomplicated”
“Love love love SingleFile too. The FF extension works pretty well for a clean save.”
“I find SingleFile a much more robust version of this.”
“I've been pretty happy with a combination of the SingleFile browser extension”
“I have used single-file to download from archive.ph”
“If i find any article that i think is interesting i use SingleFile to download a local copy”
“I have used single-file to download from archive.ph and uploaded it to github”
“That's cool, but also requires using the Singlefile extension (and granting it access)”
“If it's local, there's no problem, just use MHT or SingleFile!”
“which I like too - I tested it on even DOS browsers”
“So it's not totally useless, but it deserves to be optimized at a minimum in SingleFile”
“Seems like you might as well just go with MHT or SingleFile”
“with the singlefile extension it's pretty easy to store things you can see”
“SingleFile does the archiving fairly well.”
“pruning entries that have lost relevance or appeal”
“seems like its got a ton of use cases”
“It also works with SingleFile to archive logged-in sites.”
“With a little help from the SingleFile extension, I ended up with a single HTML file containing all functionality and content.”
“so it archives what I'm seeing / gets around logins etc”
“because a lot of the pages that I save have the same images”
“it's saved my ass multiple times”
“I've been using single file for five years and I've never had this issue”
“this enables archiving pages from my browser that Karakeep cannot scrape and bookmark due to paywalls or bot protection”
“I was unable to open them a couple of years later.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.