but that simply just launches a headless browser and downloads the requested URL. This approach is useless in my case since I want to save the Reddit page with the modifications that I've personally and manually made (i.e., with the desired comment threads manually expanded).

Over the years I found the MHTML format faster to acquire (there’s no messing around with the pdf output formatting options (header, pagination, etc)) and it’s much faster to reload on later viewings .

Browser add-on: Save Page WE Firefox / Chrome A firefox/chrome add-on which is lighter than the web-recorder mentioned below, and which worked well for a subset of use cases. Configurable, flexible, and can optionally scroll pages in order to retrieve lazy-loaded content. It inlines images, scripts, fonts, etc as data-URLs producing a single big standalone HTML file.

It's not possible to do this with many websites these days. And for sites that seem like it's possible, it would still require some Javascript experience for reverse-engineering and "fixing" the scripts that are saved to your computer. There is no single method that works for all websites, you have to work through each unique problem for every site you try to save.

Web archiving is the process of collecting portions of the World Wide Web, preserving the collections in an archival format, and then serving the archives for access and use.

Authors increasingly cite webpages and other digital objects on the Internet, which can "disappear" overnight. In one study published in the journal Science, 13% of Internet references in scholarly articles were inactive after only 27 months. Another problem is that cited webpages may change, so that readers see something different than what the citing author saw.

A U.S. court has recently (Jan 19th, 2006) ruled that caching does not constitute a copyright violation, because of fair use and an implied license (Field vs Google, US District Court, District of Nevada, CV-S-04-0413-RCJ-LRL, see also news article on Government Technology). Implied license refers to the industry standards mentioned above: If the copyright holder does not use any no-archive tags and robot exclusion standards to prevent caching, WebCite® can (as Google does) assume that a license to archive has been granted. Fair use is even more obvious in the case of WebCite® than for Google, as Google uses a “shotgun” approach, whereas WebCite® archives selectively only material that is relevant for scholarly work. Fair use is therefore justifiable based on the fair-use principles of purpose (caching constitutes transformative and socially valuable use for the purposes of archiving, in the case of WebCite® also specifically for academic research), the nature of the cached material (previously made available for free on the Internet, in the case of WebCite® also mainly scholarly material), amount and substantiality (in the case of WebCite® only cited webpages, rarely entire websites), and effect of the use on the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work (in the case of Google it was ruled that there is no economic effect, the same is true for WebCite®).

Caching and archiving webpages is widely done (e.g. by Google, Internet Archive etc.), and is not considered a copyright infringement, as long as the copyright owner has the ability to remove the archived material and to opt out.

Services such as the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) or Google archive Internet documents in a shotgun-approach by a crawler, not focussing on academic references

A subscription to a paper journal provides the library with an archival copy of the content. Subscribing to a Web journal rents access to the publisher's copy.

It's great to enhance the Internet Archive, but you can bet I'm keeping my local copy too.

Twitter threads gave illness a name and a face, grounding the dread in particular bodies and disparate — if often overlapping — experiences. They placed these experiences in history, creating an archive of disease, fear, rage, and hope that will persist even as these feelings — and some of these people — have passed.

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The cacophony of the crowd erases the past and affirms the present. It started with search and now its accelerated with the now web. I dont know where it leads but I almost want a remember button — like the like or favorite. Something that registers something as a memory — as an salient fact that I for one can draw out of the stream at a later time.