# tamnd/kage

Shadow any website for offline viewing, with the JavaScript stripped out

Repository: https://github.com/tamnd/kage
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kage
Homepage: https://kage.tamnd.com
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-10T11:59:54+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 79/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 97, longevity 5
- inputs: {"age_days": 80, "days_push": 23, "days_rel": 23, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 18}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3322, forks 124 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:56.296515+00:00)

## What it is
kage is a Go CLI tool that clones websites into browsable offline folders by rendering each page in headless Chrome, snapshotting the final DOM, and stripping all JavaScript, event handlers, and javascript: URLs. It localizes CSS, images, and fonts to relative paths, can pack mirrors into ZIM archives or self-contained binaries, and includes a local static server for serving the mirror.

## Use cases
- archive a website for offline reading with no scripts
- save a JavaScript-rendered site as static HTML
- mirror documentation to read without internet
- create a tracker-free snapshot of a webpage
- pack a website into a single self-contained file
- clone a site and serve it locally offline

## When to choose
- you want an offline copy of a JS-rendered site that actually renders
- you need a snapshot that makes zero network calls or runs no code
- you want to archive sites into ZIM archives for Kiwix
- you need resumable, scoped crawls of multi-page sites

## When to avoid
- you need the site's interactive JavaScript features to work offline
- you want to scrape structured data or APIs rather than pages
- you need authenticated or dynamically personalized content preserved

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: web-scraping, http-server, cli, privacy, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, privacy, crawlers, self-hosted, web-development
- platform: windows, bsd, cli, go
- tags: website-mirroring, offline-browsing, headless-chrome, javascript-stripping, site-archival, zim-archive, static-snapshot, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- tamnd/kage (main) score 79

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.296515+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:41:49.651362+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tamnd/kage (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.296515+00:00, sha fd854670b4b6)
  - homepage: https://kage.tamnd.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:34:53.164998+00:00, sha 82636c08e5a7)
  - site_page: https://kage.tamnd.com/getting-started/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T09:34:53.173235+00:00, sha d293d78ea75b)
  - site_page: https://kage.tamnd.com/getting-started/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T09:34:53.175332+00:00, sha 06bc77281747)
  - site_page: https://kage.tamnd.com/getting-started/quick-start (fetched 2026-08-29T09:34:53.177034+00:00, sha 89d245e9052a)
  - site_page: https://kage.tamnd.com/getting-started (fetched 2026-08-29T09:34:53.178545+00:00, sha 403055805265)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.