BlueSky posts (HTML) not rendering or displaying in DTP

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All good! “Link document” is not a term used anywhere in DEVONthink – and more generally, it is a vague term that could mean many different things :slight_smile: Communication is much easier with precise terms.

I’ve never visited Bluesky and just made a quick reply from my phone this morning… I just gave it a go to see what result I would get, but chrillek beat me to it. He has a much deeper technical understanding than me in this area anyways. I did notice it was a pretty short HTML document that seemed to load content dynamically with a script, but the missing base element didn’t immediately jump out to me.

May I ask why you choose HTML as the capture format? I would probably prefer PDF here.

If HTML is a priority to you, here’s some possible solutions that work on my end:

  1. Load the URL in DEVONthink’s built-in web browser and capture from here as Formatted Note. Either through the menu: Tools > Capture > Formatted Note, or through the Action Menu (the cogwheel) in the Navigation Bar
    • Since the site is dynamic, this ensures the content is loaded in DT before capture. (A bare HTML Page still doesn’t work.)
    • Web Archive is also an option, but this captures much more than you need, and the size difference is substantial. 328,6 KB vs. 8,1 MB (!) for a random example (a post with a link card to an article, including an image, with 12 replies).
  2. Select the relevant part of the page, and use the “DEVONthink 3: Capture Web Archive” System Service.
    • The file size here is much smaller than capturing the whole page as a Web Archive. Formatted Note is still smaller, though – 328,6 KB vs. 533,8 KB.
    • I’m not sure this work’s in other browsers than Safari.
  3. Use the SingleFile browser extension. It might be possible to optimize the configuration for Bluesky, but without adjusting anything I get a file size of 1,6 MB for the same example.

For PDF, I get the best result with Safari’s File > Export as PDF. The potential downside is that it loses a lot of the embedded links (like the timestamped links to individual posts/replies). Printing as PDF keeps most (all?) of the links, but messes up the layout somewhat.

I also recommend reading this post by @chrillek:

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