Creating offline website mirrors with kage

kage, recently discussed on HN, "shadow[s] any website for offline viewing, with the JavaScript stripped out". Set up in a new Ubuntu 26.04 ARM64 VM:

Install Chromium via App Center

Install a compatible Go version

wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.26.4.linux-arm64.tar.gz
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.26.4.linux-arm64.tar.gz
echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin:$HOME/go/bin' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

Install kage

go install github.com/tamnd/kage/cmd/kage@latest
Clone the desired site

kage clone example.com --chrome /snap/bin/chromium
Browse the archive

kage includes a serve command, but any HTTP server will do:
```
cd ~/data/kage/example.com
python3 -m http.server
```
Then open http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser.

❧ 2026-06-18