LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS

[StephenMottershead]

Hello,

I am trying to use the "self-extracting-archive=ture" with LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS but not sure how to do that inside of the .env file. Is this at all possible?

[jasonlearst]

HI @StephenMottershead,

You can add the line LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS='--self-extracting-archive=true' to the .env. file. You will need to make sure that you have the env file option set to have all variables present in it passed to the container. If you are using docker compose it would be these lines from the example:

    env_file:
      - .env

References:
https://docs.docker.com/compose/how-tos/environment-variables/set-environment-variables/#use-the-env_file-attribute

[StephenMottershead]

Hello @jasonlearst

Thank you for your reply. Just try that now and still not working, just creates a normal HTML with embed image. This setting should make it so it creates an u.zip.html instead.

[jasonlearst]

Hi @StephenMottershead ,

I noticed that the value defaults to true according to the code.

I don't have any value set for LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS and my instance stores .html.gz files.

[StephenMottershead]

Hello @jasonlearst,

Yes, that is right. The HTML is zipped in a gz, the zip doesn't contain any of the files like images. It a normal HTML file with all the image compressed into it.

[jasonlearst]

@StephenMottershead , I see. As far as I can tell Linkding just integrates the single-file-cli application for archiving. I suggest looking around the documentation/help for that application to figure out what options need to be passed to store the images in the format you want.

Once you know the options you need you can pass them into the single-file application with the LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS environment variable.

[StephenMottershead]

Hello,

After a little bit of playing about, I have sorted out the problem, and it wasn't obvious when you look at the file format. You need to put this code below in your .env file.

The HTML will still be in html.gz file, and you need to unzip to access the HTML file. You then need to change .html file to .zIp and then unzip it. This will let you access the files inside from the website including the images, etc.

compress-content="true"

[lilygthb]

Hello,

After a little bit of playing about, I have sorted out the problem, and it wasn't obvious when you look at the file format. You need to put this code below in your .env file.

The HTML will still be in html.gz file, and you need to unzip to access the HTML file. You then need to change .html file to .zIp and then unzip it. This will let you access the files inside from the website including the images, etc.

compress-content="true"

I can't reproduce your behavior: After decompressing the .html.gz I get an .html but if I change the extension to .zip the decompression doesn't work. Archive utility on Mac says is in unsupported format.

Unsure if I was using the right syntax I played with the .env file, here are the different syntaxes with the results:

LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content=true     -> creates snapshot but I can't unzip it
LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content="True"   -> html snapshot failed
LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS='--compress-content=True'   -> html snapshot failed
LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content=True     -> html snapshot failed

Which is the correct syntax to specify single file options in the `.env. file?

[StephenMottershead]

Hello,
After a little bit of playing about, I have sorted out the problem, and it wasn't obvious when you look at the file format. You need to put this code below in your .env file.
The HTML will still be in html.gz file, and you need to unzip to access the HTML file. You then need to change .html file to .zIp and then unzip it. This will let you access the files inside from the website including the images, etc.
compress-content="true"

I can't reproduce your behavior: After decompressing the .html.gz I get an .html but if I change the extension to .zip the decompression doesn't work. Archive utility on Mac says is in unsupported format.

Unsure if I was using the right syntax I played with the .env file, here are the different syntaxes with the results:

LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content=true     -> creates snapshot but I can't unzip it
LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content="True"   -> html snapshot failed
LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS='--compress-content=True'   -> html snapshot failed
LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content=True     -> html snapshot failed

Which is the correct syntax to specify single file options in the `.env. file?

It is the second one. LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content="true" It could be the capital T?
I haven't tried doing it on a Mac cant see it being any different. I will give it a go in a bit.

[lilygthb]

It is the second one. LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content="true" It could be the capital T? I haven't tried doing it on a Mac cant see it being any different. I will give it a go in a bit.

I just tried
LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content="true"

Linkding creates the snapshot but the final zip is unable to decompress

[StephenMottershead]

It is the second one. LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content="true" It could be the capital T? I haven't tried doing it on a Mac cant see it being any different. I will give it a go in a bit.

I just tried LD_SINGLEFILE_OPTIONS=--compress-content="true"

Linkding creates the snapshot but the final zip is unable to decompress

Okay. Just got my MacBook out and had a look. It is an apple thing. You need to use Unarchiver (app store)instead of the default one, sadly. If you like the terminal, the unzip command does seem to work. Very odd but working with that Unarchiver.

[lilygthb]

Okay. Just got my MacBook out and had a look. It is an apple thing. You need to use Unarchiver (app store)instead of the default one, sadly. If you like the terminal, the unzip command does seem to work. Very odd but working with that Unarchiver.

Thank you so much, it works!