Comparing Local Archiving Methods for Yahoo News Articles (SingleFile, Playwright, ArchiveBox, WARC, yt-dlp)
Yahoo News articles may be deleted after a certain period. When archiving them locally for personal records, several tools are available. Here, the following five methods were tested against the same article, and the results were compared. SingleFile CLI — saves as a single HTML file Playwright PDF — converts the page to PDF ArchiveBox — batch saves in multiple formats (including WARC) WARC — a standard web archive format yt-dlp — downloads embedded videos Comparison Results Method Format Folder Size Ads Video SingleFile CLI Single HTML 1.3MB Included × Playwright PDF PDF 2.5MB Mostly excluded × ArchiveBox Multiple formats 43MB Included △ yt-dlp MP4 27MB - ○ The 43MB from ArchiveBox includes SingleFile, PDF, WARC, and extracted text. When all methods are used together, a single article consumes approximately 74MB of storage. ...