Download Markdown: Page requires JavaScript

DEVONthink
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I was collecting URLs about developing Apps, using different programming languagages and so on …

As those can not easily be managed in Safari, I finally moved them to a new DEVONthink database, opened all folders, selected everything and used “convert to MarkDown”.

The idea was to push those MarkDown files to Roam or Obsidian to develop a knowledge network.

Sadly, many many files just contain this:

# This page requires JavaScript.

Please turn on JavaScript in your browser and refresh the page to view its content.

This, or some other multi-lingual hints.

Is there no way that DEVONthink could just use and convert the data that is available in Safari itself?

With some extension that uses Safari - incl. the required login data - to just get the content and then convert it to MarkDown or PDF or whatever.

Just asking, as this would be fantastic to collect data.

P.S.
We had a similar topic about DTTG where I was used to convert a webpage with Safari first before exporting to DTTG. Otherwise, the data often was different or missing content.

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Only clipping a web page does but converting bookmarks can’t. As usual the URL of such a page would be useful.

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Thanks.

Sad thing, would be great to start Safari from and for such an URL and then get the “finished” content back into DT.

About the websites, there are numerous … for example:

https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/11.4/#/dev31645f17f

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/documents_data_and_pasteboard/developing_a_document-based_app/

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If you captured a web archive then converted that to Markdown, you could get the text of the document but the images wouldn’t be included. It would also take some cleanup.

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Thanks.

I was just trying to make better use of my Safari bookmarked URLs.
I tend to collect them in Safari …