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kage

Offline, script-free copies of websites

WHO USES ITReaders who want to keep a body of writing · Docs owners · Go developers

Install to use

CLI that renders a site in headless Chrome and saves a script-free copy to read offline

★ 3.4k▲ 712 HN

3,399 stars · checked on GitHub GitHub check 30 h late · no 7-day star increase observed (GH Archive) (as of ) · 712 Show HN points observed

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Terminal demo: cloning paulgraham.com, packing it into one file and serving it back offline
Terminal demo: cloning paulgraham.com, packing it into one file and serving it back offline
Terminal demo: cloning paulgraham.com, packing it into one file and serving it back offline

TESIGN TAKE

It does one thing, keeping what a real browser rendered minus the code, and finishes in an open format (ZIM) instead of its own.

INSTALL

AT A GLANCE

LICENSE
MIT
USAGE
Use, change and redistribute, commercially too. Keep the notice.
LANGUAGE
Go
PLATFORM
cli · macos · windows · linux
ACTIVITY
last commit 37 days ago () · latest release v0.3.12 () · 18 releases
COMMUNITY
7 contributors · 9 open issues (incl. PRs) · made by: an individual
SOURCES
Show HN + GitHub
OPEN SOURCE
YES
FIRST SEEN
CATEGORY
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WHY IT MATTERS

A page saved with Save As tends to open months later as a blank screen or a spinner that never stops. kage loads each page in real headless Chrome, waits for it to settle, snapshots the DOM, deletes every script and pulls CSS, images and fonts to local paths. `kage pack` then collapses the mirror into one ZIM file (the format Kiwix uses) or a single executable that serves the site itself (about 13 MiB plus the site).

BUILD FROM THIS

  • You could schedule a job that re-renders an internal docs site with `--refresh` into a script-free static copy, or run archiving on a server with the container image that bundles Chromium. The pure-Go ZIM reader and writer (zim/) can be reused on its own.

WHO IT'S FOR

Readers who want to keep a body of writing
a whole essay site as an offline folder or one ZIM file
Docs owners
hand out a script-free copy of a documentation site
Go developers
reuse the pure-Go ZIM package and headless Chrome control

START IN 5 MINUTES

# brew install --cask tamnd/tap/kage   # Windows: scoop bucket add tamnd https://github.com/tamnd/scoop-bucket && scoop install kage / Go: go install github.com/tamnd/kage/cmd/kage@latest
# kage clone paulgraham.com
# kage serve $HOME/data/kage/paulgraham.com
# # open http://127.0.0.1:8800
# kage pack paulgraham.com               # -> paulgraham.com.zim

CAVEATS

  • Licence MIT. Needs Chrome or Chromium on the host (the container image bundles Chromium). Respects robots.txt by default.
  • ZIM output has no full-text search index like Kiwix's own packs, so in-reader search is limited. The binary pack adds about 13 MiB regardless of site size. The native-window viewer is an opt-in cgo build.
  • Free. Latest release v0.3.12 as of 2026-09-15, still 0.x.

RECEIPT

FIRST SEEN
AT SOURCE
KEPT
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SOURCES
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