Kite Capture

Add it to Chrome

Add Kite Capture from the Chrome Web Store. It needs Chrome 116 or later. Once it is added, it opens a page that shows where its button is.

Nothing leaves your browser except what you paste: the extension has no account and no server.

Copy a page

1. On the page, click the Kite Capture button in Chrome's toolbar, or press ⌥⇧K (Alt+Shift+K on Windows).
2. Choose Select a section (S) or Whole page (P).
3. In a Kite file, press ⌘V.

While it copies, a bar at the bottom of the page counts the pictures it reads. Then it says how many layers were copied, with Open Kite.

Pick a section

Point at a part of the page: it is outlined, with its size and how many layers it makes.

• ↑ takes the part around it, ↓ a part inside it, and ← → the parts beside it.
• ⇧-click to gather several parts. They come into Kite side by side.
• Click or press ↩ to copy. ⌘↩ copies the whole page instead. Esc stops.

What comes over

• Frames, text, pictures and icons, laid out as the browser drew them: rows, columns and grids, padding, borders and corners.
• Tables, as rows of boxes. Form fields as they show, with their value or placeholder.
• Charts, canvases, videos and frames from other sites, as pictures of how they looked.
• The page at rest: it is scrolled through first, so what appears as you scroll is there, and animations are played to their end.

Text meant only for screen readers is left out. A page's own web fonts don't come with it: Kite draws Google Fonts and your workspace's fonts, and says which are missing (see Missing fonts).

Pictures

Pictures are read in your browser, so a page behind a sign-in or on your own computer copies with its pictures. Kite stores them in the file when you paste.

Some sites don't let a page read the pictures they serve. When one can't be read, the bar says so: open Kite Capture's menu, turn on Pictures from other sites, and copy again. It is off until you turn it on, and Chrome asks you first.

Limits

• A copy brings up to 2,000 layers. Point at something bigger and the outline says only the first 2,000 come over.
• It can't run on Chrome's own pages or on the Chrome Web Store.
• It copies one width and one theme at a time, and doesn't keep hover states.