# Make downloaded version work offline
**URL:** https://talk.observablehq.com/t/make-downloaded-version-work-offline/1254
**Category:** Feedback
**Created:** [September 26, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/make-downloaded-version-work-offline/1254 "2018-09-26T21:35:52Z")
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### Author:  [@nicola](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/nicola)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2018, 9:35pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/make-downloaded-version-work-offline/1254/1 "2018-09-26T21:35:52Z")
The current downloaded tarball version should be able to work offline (it does not today).
Is it possible to have an extra option that allows for offline downloads? or even a special script?
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### Author:  [@jashkenas](https://talk.observablehq.com/u/jashkenas)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://talk.observablehq.com/t/make-downloaded-version-work-offline/1254/2 "2018-09-27T18:02:35Z")
Currently, all of a notebook’s external dependencies are requested from [unpkg](https://unpkg.com/#/) at notebook runtime … or whichever external resource you have explicitly requested by URL.
(Note that this includes things like our markdown library, marked, which is needed if you use the `md` tagged template literal.)
In the future, for simple cases, where the name of the requested module can be determined statically … we might download and bundle the external libraries into the tarball download. But I’m afraid that we’re not there yet.