How to open multiple URLs in Chrome/Firefox and then save them individually?

Question

If I have a .txt file containing a list of URLs, how can I get Chrome or Firefox to open them, one URL per tab and then save the page in each tab separately?

Any platform will do: Windows, Mac, Linux.

Answer 1

Opening the URLs in tabs can be done just pasting in a console prompt cmd your URLs like this.

start chrome http://yoururls/foo.html &
start chrome http://yoururls/bar.html &
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or

start firefox http://yoururls/foo.html &
start firefox http://yoururls/bar.html &
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Answer 2

Although the question specifically mentions Chrome and Firefox, if what you are trying to do is to save the content of each page, wget is made for this task. E.g.:

wget --input-file=list_of_urls.txt

You can even specify a specific user-agent in case you want the server to see the request as a certain browser:

wget --user-agent=some_specific_user_agent_string --input-file=list_of_urls.txt

Answer 3

Answering my own question, I was unsure of some plug-ins I had already seen but a closer look confirmed that they should do the job.

Two stages:

1) Run Firefox or Chrome from the command line, passing in the list of sites as parameter or a file containing a list, using one of the following methods:

• https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/17659/opening-multiple-urls-from-a-text-file-as-different-tabs-in-firefox-chrome
• How to open a list of URLs in Firefox or SeaMonkey?
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3752133/script-to-automate-url-opening-in-multiple-tabs-in-firefox-or-opera-from-a-text
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8045522/open-urls-from-a-file-in-newtabs-in-firefox
• How to open a set of tabs together quickly?
• Chrome command line arguments w/ url?

2) Then use one of the following plug-in as appropriate to save all the contents of each tab

Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unmht/

Quoted from the plug-in page (particular features of interest for this question):

About this Add-on: UnMHT provides following features:

• Save webpage as MHT file.
• Insert URL of the webpage and date you saved into saved MHT file.
• Save multiple tabs as MHT files at once.
• Save multiple tabs into a single MHT file.
• Save webpage by single click into prespecified directory with Quick Save feature.
• Convert HTML files and directory which contains files used by the HTML into MHT file.
• View the MHT file saved by UnMHT, IE, PowerPoint, etc.

Chrome: Extension: ZipTabs https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ziptabs/ccnanbffbfbcgfmmkgejodommhidpjba

From the extension page:

• save multiple opened pages into a zip file containing single HTML files with all resources included (images, stylesheets, frames...)
• open a zip file containing archives into tabs Notes:
• this extension needs "SingleFile Core" to be already installed (follow install instructions)

Answer 4

Getting all of the tabs to open separate through batch isn't too hard.

Code:

@echo off
open chrome [enter URL 1]
open chrome [enter URL 2]
...
exit

As for the saving, not sure if it's possible through batch. I could be wrong though.