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Older scrapes seem to have their requisites intact. One from August 2019 is intact; so is one from March 2020; one from September 2020 is not.

The obvious thing that changed between March 2020 and September 2020 is that I changed laptops. Something is wrong with this laptop's setup. I'm not sure how to tell what.

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I went and tried it in a Lubuntu 18.04 virtual machine (which comes with wget 1.19.4 rather than 1.20.3), and that one got the stylesheet but not the images.

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... it's weird imagining people who don't need to have python installed on everything always (but then, I'm doing my thesis in it) but that does seem like a very large file for python, not that I've ever checked.

Why are you trying to do the scraping on mobile only?

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>>that does seem like a very large file for python, not that I've ever checked.

The download was under 100 MB, but it takes up more space after installing. Apparently Python was also the reason BorgBackup was so expensive, and if I'm going to have Python anyway the marginal space cost of BorgBackup is only about 7 MB. I might tinker around with that.

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>>Why are you trying to do the scraping on mobile only?

I'm not trying to *do* the scraping on mobile, but in a pinch it would be nice to have the option of *accessing* scrape results on mobile. One of the main downsides of the WARC file format as things stand is that nobody's written a WARC-reader app for Andr...I wonder if any of *those* can be run through Termux. Might only be the raw-data ones, since those are the only ones that can output directly to a command line. What can Termux do regarding pulling up GUIs?

...a lot, potentially. Huh. I will have to look into that. I haven't done much with Termux, but it seems to be a very powerful tool once you've started to wrap your head around it.

Anyway, my point was that I like to have the *option* of reading my files on Android even if I might never make use of that option, and I would feel more comfortable about switching to grab-site as my primary web scraper if I had a way to read its output on Android.

Back when my handheld computer was a Sansa, I kept a file backup on it (and successfully recovered from an abrupt laptop loss this way), but for most types of files it was purely storage: you couldn't *do* anything without another computer to hook it up to, and for a while there in my early-mid teens my laptop was broken and I was writing diary entries by borrowing other people's computers and hooking my Sansa up to them to access the diary file. One of the selling points of upgrading to a smartphone, for me, was a self-accessing backup drive.

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That seems valid but increasingly impractical given, as you say, the expense of highly portable memory.

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