Show HN: Download all threads of an Orkut community (opens in new tab)

To save a single page - yes (to be precise, it simulates key presses and does not rely on any mouse action). The saving of the web page part is actually handled by another script I wrote few days back (https://github.com/abiyani/automate-save-page-as), and it was the only option I could find to automate saving a page (as rendered by the chrome). I will be very happy to learn of any other alternative for this task.

This particular script (orkut-community-downloader) uses "automate-save-page-as" script to download every single page, and therefore contain the (simple) logic for navigating through all the posts, polls, and later on changing the links to point to local copy, symlinking stuff to save space, and providing support for "resuming" the download operation.

Do you mind sharing what bugs you are facing (and which platform you are testing on), so I can try and fix them ? If HN comments doesn't seem a fit place, then feel free to email me (ID: <username>@gmail.com).

Thanks for sharing these links! I did take a brief look at Selenium, but due to my lack of familiarity with it and no mention on how to save the full page in html (instead of screenshot) I moved quickly to writing this version using xdotool. I agree this approach is more clunky and perhaps less likely to work across different platforms (than say Selenium/CasperJS), but it finally served the purpose for me (Ubuntu 12.04, GNOME, Chrome) by letting me download a bunch of communities. :)

Good luck with your CasperJS approach, and I would love to learn from it if you wish to share the code later.