About a year ago I had to update my MacBook Pro. Everything went fine, including making sure Scrivener was sitting comfortably and the projects were all in order.
But just recently I realized a tremendously useful web app had gone missing. I don’t know if it was for Chrome or Firefox or Safari - and that doesn’t matter because I use all three.
So you’re on a webpage you want to hold on to as research for a given project. This app allowed you to chose how much of the page to grab – all, plain text; all, formatted as seen; one specific section.
I used it a lot when I was last writing a book, and now I cannot find it. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
It sounds like you are describing a browser extension (or “add-on” depending on the browser’s jargon), rather than a stand-alone program? There are probably way too many snippet extensions like to say for sure which on you used before, based on that description. I would imagine most offer some options like that, and you could probably just go down the list until you find one that looks good, or maybe you’ll recognise the icon in the search result list.
I use one called Copy as Markdown, which is for Chromium-based browsers. But while it does allow for whole-page vs selection copying, that one is pretty specifically only useful to Markdown, and doesn’t sound like what you were using.
There is also SiteSucker. I use this all the time to download entire websites. It might be customizable to download specific parts of a site like you want. (I don’t know about that; I prefer grabbing the whole thing.)
If you are not leery of the Terminal, look into getting wget. It’s a command that does the same thing as SiteSucker (I have a sneaky suspicion that SiteSucker is a GUI wrapper for wget.)
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