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Q: Download website for offline browsing ( Answered 3 out of 5 stars,   1 Comment )
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Subject: Download website for offline browsing
Category: Computers > Software
Asked by: aaaghgh-ga
List Price: $3.00
Posted: 13 Nov 2002 06:50 PST
Expires: 13 Dec 2002 06:50 PST
Question ID: 106820
What is the best software (shareware, freeware or commercial) program
that can download any website completely with all its contents and
files (attachments of any type).
The software should be able also to download all links on other
servers as well.
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Subject: Re: Download website for offline browsing
Answered By: theta-ga on 13 Nov 2002 08:04 PST
Rated:3 out of 5 stars
 
There are a number of applications available that will meet your
needs. Here are a few of the most popular ones :

FREE
  - HTTrack Website Copier v3.21
    ( http://www.httrack.com/index.php)
    Allows you to download a Website to a local directory, getting all
directories, HTML pages, images, and other files from the server to
your computer.Easily update downloaded websites, resume
downloads.Fully configurable.

  - WebStripper Offline Browser v2.2
    ( http://www.webstripper.net/ )
    Copy webpages or entire websites. Full featured, easy to use
interface. Free for personal use.

  - Webreaper v9.8
    ( http://www.webreaper.net/)
    Provides you with an explorer type interface to download complete
websites.Easily create filters to limit what files are
downloaded.Download directly to dosk folders or Internet Explorer
cache. Can use GetRight for large file downloads.

COMMERCIAL
  - WebZip 5
    (http://www.spidersoft.com/)
    $39.95
    Download entire or partial websites.Store as folders,compressed
zip files or HTML Help files.Easy to use interface, fully
configurable.
   WARNING : I have found the newly released v5 to be a bit buggy.I
can highly recommend v4 though.

  - BlackWidow 4.3
    ( www.softbytelabs.com )
    $40
    Provides an explorer style interface to download files.You can
view information about each file and select files to download.
BlackWidow even allows you to retrieve e-mail! Huge list of features.

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Hope this helped.
If you need any clarifications, just ask.
:)
aaaghgh-ga rated this answer:3 out of 5 stars
Your recommendation / preference is highly needed

Comments  
Subject: Re: Download website for offline browsing
From: zhiwenchong-ga on 13 Nov 2002 15:27 PST
 
You might be interested in looking at this site:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Software/Internet/Site_Management/Mirroring/?tc=1

Pavuk and wget are two good ones.

Pavuk
http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/

Wget (UNIX version). You can search the web for a Windows version (1.6
is the latest I think)
http://wget.sunsite.dk/

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