How to convert an HTML file with referenced images on the command line to a webarchive?
Under macOS I want to convert HTML files with referenced images on the command line/programatically to webarchives.
Given a sample file sample.html containing:
<html><body>
<h1>File with resource</h1>
<p>This file shows text and references an image.</p>
<img src="sample.jpg" />
</body></html>
and an image sample.jpg in the same directory, I can view the html file in any browser and it is render with the image. To convert to a webarchive I tried:
textutil -convert webarchive sample.html
but the resulting sample.webarchive does not, when opened in Safari, render the image - though it contains it (see comments).
How can I do the conversion from the command line correctly, so that the result contains and renders the image? After all that's what webarchives are for!
Solution 1:
Use the tool webarchiver (which you can install via brew install webarchiver):
webarchiver -url sample.html -output sample.webarchive
The webarchive produced contains the image and Safari shows the image when it displays the webarchive.