Saving an ebay page ?

Discussion in 'Software' started by Dumb_Question, Sep 9, 2013.

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  1. Dumb_Question

    Dumb_Question Sergeant Major

    I'd to save an advert/description page from ebay.
    I find that saving it as an *.mht file onlysaves a small part of it, usually a couple of pictures, it fails to save it as a full *.html file (with associated files in an a folder), and html only seems to give similar results to *.mht

    I'd like an *.mht file because it will stay the same after the advert is removed, or changes, even if you don't get the links.

    The only sure way I have of saving it is to print it, I use a pdf printer, which generates 'page n of m' at the top of every page which isn't in the original, and the page breaks do not come in sensible places

    How does one do this ? it sems ebay advert pages are unusually uncooperative in this sense.

    Dumb_Question
    9.September.2013
    HP Pavilion dm4 1050ea - 8GB RAM - 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium
     
  2. Earthling

    Earthling Interplanetary Geek

    I have something for sale atm and in Chrome the page saves completely as .htm
     
  3. Earthling

    Earthling Interplanetary Geek

    I've just twigged it - you need to be signed in to Ebay to save pages successfully.
     
  4. Dumb_Question

    Dumb_Question Sergeant Major

    *.htm = html full page or html only ? (Have you looked at the result ? [I assume so])
    I was signed in to ebay (www.ebay.co.uk)
    I don't have Chrome, but maybe I should try another browser ? (=Firefox)
    This still leaves the issue of why I can't save any ebay ad. pages properly in IE9.

    Dumb_Question
    10.September.2013
    HP Pavilion dm4 1050ea - 8GB RAM - 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium
     
  5. Dumb_Question

    Dumb_Question Sergeant Major

    The problems with saving this webpage from Firefox are :

    On saving as a full html file with the associated folder, FF saves the the associated folder to the right place, but seems unable to save the html file correctly, it puts what can into the FF downloads folder [which is where ?](not the same place as I want it saved to) and in the list of downloads reports an error. When I actually carry out the save, the downloads window opens, with an error screen on top of that (pictured), clicking 'ok' button on this seems to nothing, and I have to click on the red X (TR) several times before it will close. - actually, the latter seems to be a file length problem, if I save the file as blah.html it does not display any error, but clicking on blah.html although it opens the webpage, that IE9 page so opened does not contain the pictures just a small coloured chequered square inside a slightly larger square inside a larger square which I assume marks the picture boundary. It has this for every picture on the page.

    There is no option to save the webpage in my preferred format, an mht file.

    The only thing that does seem to work well is saving as html only

    Dumb_Question
    10.September.2013
    HP Pavilion dm4 1050ea - 8GB RAM - 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium
     

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