Is there a download function in jsFiddle?

Question

Is there a download function in jsFiddle, so you can download an HTML with the CSS, HTML and JS in one file, so you can run it without jsFiddle for debug purposes?

Answer 1

No, JSFiddle doesn't have a download feature. However, it's not very difficult to get around that and save the contents of a fiddle anyway.

Since the time the accepted answer was posted, JSFiddle has made some recent UI and backend changes that affect the way a fiddle should be downloaded. Note the updated procedures below.

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Simple Commandline Method

This method only downloads the fiddle's HTML, JavaScript, and CSS as a single file. The fiddle's external resources are not saved.

In the commandline shown below, fiddle_id refers to the ID number of the fiddle. For a fiddle with the URL "http://jsfiddle.net//" or "http://jsfiddle.net/", only the fiddle_id is needed. The fiddle_user is unimportant.

At a shell prompt, enter the single commandline:

fiddleId=fiddle_id; curl "http://fiddle.jshell.net/${fiddleId}/show/" -H "Referer: http://fiddle.jshell.net/${fiddleId}/" --output "${fiddleId}.html"

The fiddle will be saved to a file named "fiddle_id.html".

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Longer Browser Method

This method downloads the fiddle as well as its external resources. The steps given are based on using Google Chrome. Using other web browsers should work as well, but they may use different filenames.

1. Select the "Share/Embed" menu/link at the top of the JSFiddle edit page. In the dialog box that appears, copy the URL shown in the "Share full screen result" field. It will be of the form "http://jsfiddle.net///embedded/result/" or "http://jsfiddle.net//embedded/result/".
2. Open a new browser window and paste in the URL copied in the previous step. Load that page.
3. Use your browser's save feature to save the page and all of its resources to your local computer. To save all the resources using Google Chrome, for example, be sure to select "Webpage, Complete" in the "Format" menu. Be sure to specify a name for the page. Let's say it's named "fiddle.html" for this example.
4. After the page is saved to your computer, you will have the "fiddle.html" file and a directory named "fiddle_files". The file "fiddle.html" is the wrapper page that JSFiddle uses to display a header with a "Result" title and other links. It will load your fiddle in an iframe element. For the most part, this file can be ignored or even deleted. Your fiddle's HTML, JavaScript, and CSS content will all be saved in the "fiddle_files" directory as a single file named "saved_resource.html".
5. Copy "fiddle_files/saved_resource.html" to wherever you'd like to use it. If your fiddle included items under "External Resources", those will also appear in the "fiddle_files" directory. Be sure to copy those files to the same place to which you copied "saved_resource.html", because the HTML file will refer to those resources using relative URLs.

As mentioned earlier, other browsers may name the files differently when they are saved. For example, Firefox names the combined HTML/JS/CSS file "fiddle_files/a.html".