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Printing Paywalled Sites (tabs.ultimate-guitar.com)

I'm trying to find an extension that will allow me to print pages such as the one I've linked. When I attempt to do so, the page goes black and I'm prevented from snagging the content. I've also tried screenshot tools, including a few grab & print style extensions. I've messed around with the inspector console, tried disabling javascript, more or less all of the things you might futz with to circumvent this. No joy.

Does anyone have a solution or tool they use for this? I'd like to have this on paper so I don't have to stare at a screen when I'm playing. (I'm a shit jazz musician and need tab. I blame rock and roll.)

Cheers!

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[-] prismatic@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 hours ago

I was able to do it in Firefox. Opened the dev tools, went into responsive design mode, set the screen size to large enough to see the whole thing and hit the camera button to screenshot it all.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks. I've managed to do that as well. I appreciate the effort.

[-] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Songsterr is $5. You can slow the tempo and play with it. You can change or isolate instruments too.

Bought it like 10 years ago. Best $5 I've ever spent.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

I have Capo for that on Mac - $5 as well back in the day. On my Arch laptop, there's a free tool (of course, right?).

In any case, thanks.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 14 points 20 hours ago

A lot of DRMed content that prevents screen recording can be played within a VM, with the host recording the display output window.

Or so I've heard...

[-] Chakravanti@monero.town 4 points 18 hours ago

In a window inside a window...that isn't called windoze.

[-] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 22 points 1 day ago

I use Freetar.

Like Invidious, but for Ultimate-Guitar

I rely on one of the instances, but will eventually look into self-hosting it.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago

This is great, thanks.

[-] phanto@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago

I've had a bit of success with HDMI out to a splitter that does something funky with the edid, then into a capture card. The PC detects the capture card as a second display, drag the content into it, screen cap the "second display". I had all the gear for unrelated projects, but I haven't found any content I couldn't grab this way.

[-] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 0 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Pretty sure you can copy paste text from UG, and their tabs are availible on the wayback machine, that might work too

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 1 points 17 hours ago

Don't click on print on the page but use your browsers print dialog (usually CTRL + P).

[-] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 13 hours ago

Depends what you want to grab. Sometimes you can inspect the page and grab content from their.

[-] hesh@quokk.au 6 points 1 day ago

If it helps, when I open this tab in their app I can print it, despite not being able to do it in my browser. Not that it's an ideal choice.

Try turning off hardware acceleration in your browser. Not sure if it works the same way, but this makes things like netflix able to be screen shared when they pull the same black screen shit

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

Good suggestion, but no luck. I got hopeful when it took longer than normal to think about the print page... probably because hardware accel was disabled.

[-] slothrop@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

I'm on android and there's no issue printing to pdf:

[-] kalapala@sopuli.xyz 1 points 16 hours ago

Also screenshotting works.

[-] quexotic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

This might not necessarily be the kind of solution you're looking for but what I would do in this situation is use the web archive plugin to archive the page and then take the archived page and print that out instead.

Does that help?

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hmm. Interesting approach. If it works, it works. I'll give it a shot and report back.

Edit: Unfortunately, this didn't work either.

[-] quexotic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago
[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago
[-] quexotic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Oof. Facepalm.

I see the issue now. I'll work on this and get back to you.

[-] Codename_goose@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

there are a bunch of style sheet and javascript set up to work in tandem with each other that i find rather upsetting. you can go in and force things to load completely rather than on scroll but you then need to make sure that the page allows for that to happen. and they didn't exactly name their json/javascript/css in any way to make things easy to find either, as they are all name dynamically on site load. i'd go with testing without hardware acceleration, and if that doesn't work then you'll have to find a way to disable very specific files from loading or neuter them so that they load the way you need them to.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks. I've wandered that rabbit warren for a while with no luck. They're pretty tricksy. I disabled hardware accel, but that failed as well.

I'll keep trying.

[-] Beacon@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago

Screenshot works on my phone

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