Hi,

I frequently find sites containing content, videos and pictures as
well as audio files, and it becomes laborious to download them
manually.

Is there a small application where a site's URL can be supplied and it
goes to scan and grabs content based on possibly, if any, criteria?

Please suggest free and shareware applications.

Thank you.

-Mao

Hello Mao,
  
"A Great Grabber" is a small application which should meet your needs:
  
  
A Great Grabber 1.0
Filesize: 0.57 MB
Shareware $19.95
  
"A Great Grabber is a software to scan, search and grab the Internet.
All text based webpages, like html, htm etc. are scanned for needed
files. You input a start webpage, the extensions of the files where
you are interested in and let the software searching and downloading
these files. You could additional retrieve all found email addresses
from the webpages. While running all downloaded images are immediately
shown in the image viewing window, all vidoes in the video window and
all audio files are played. So you could lay back, let the program
scan the Internet and view all found images or videos one after
another. You could download all filetypes you like. By example: .JPG,
.GIF, .MP3, .AVI, .PNG, .PDF, .WAV !"
http://www.crazypixels.com/grabber-feature.htm
  
  
  
Other applications by order of file size:
  
  
Picture Ripper 3.0
Filesize: 1.37 MB
License: Shareware $49.95 

"Picture Ripper is a fast image and movie download utility. Picture
Ripper can download thousands of pictures and movies from your
favorite online gallery sites with one click. Just copy and paste the
Web site address and PictureRipper will download all media for you.
You will get only high-quality pictures with help of image and keyword
filters. Picture Ripper can be used as handy image viewer to enjoy the
pictures and movies already stored on your computer. This media
grabber can access password protected sites, TGP galleries, regular
and dynamic picture gallery sites. The program supports all popular
image formats (JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, PSD, etc) and video formats (MPEG,
AVI, QuickTime, WMV, Real Media)."
http://www.thesoftwaredirectory.8m.com/internet/inte11084.html
  
  
1-More Scanner 1.06
Filesize: 1.50 MB
Shareware $19 
   
"Scan complete WebSites for the files you are looking for (e.g.
images, sound, video, etc.). Customizable options will help you to
download only what you want! Features - Variable scan-depth -
Recursive- or Level-by-Level scan - Batch-mode to process URL-lists -
Manage excluded links - Download-list - Automatic (threaded) download
of preset file types - Scan password protected sites - Ignore links to
other sites if wanted - Minimum-size option for images - Image library
with thumb-previews - Viewer for many images formats - Fullscreen- and
zoom-mode"
http://www.thesoftwaredirectory.8m.com/internet/inte11954.html
  
  
NICI
File size:	3.52Mb
  
"Nici is automated. With a web-browser you enter an address (or click
a link) and the web-browser downloads the page and displays it ... you
need to wait before you start downloading another page. With Nici, you
can enter many addresses (or click many links) and it will
automatically move through the line of addresses downloading the
pictures and movies.
You don't have to wait around ... you can be looking at other pictures
or doing something away from your computer."
http://www.nicisoft.com/picture-downloader.html
  
The trial version is free to try for 15 days, and 1000 downloads.
After that, it can be unlocked by purchasing a license key for $49.95.
http://www.nicisoft.com/download.html
  
  
EZY Retriever v1.14 
Size: 1.2 MB
License: Shareware (Free to try) 
    
Ever visited a web site and wanted to download all the pictures or MP3
files they have?  Saving each one with your browser could take hours.
EZY Retriever is an easy-to-use downloader that searches web sites and
automatically downloads the file types that you specify, whether they
be images, multimedia or other files.
EZY Retriever has a browser window similar to Internet Explorer. You
simply need to navigate to the site you wish to download from and
click "Start Search".  Soon you will have a whole folder fill of
files.
http://www.xequte.com/other/
  
Screenshot - http://www.xequte.com/ezyretriever/screenshot1.jpg
  
  
Internet | Download Managers
http://www.thesoftwaredirectory.8m.com/internet/download_managers.html
  
  
  
I hope one of these is suitable.
   
Best regards,
   
Jackburton
   
   
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Search terms: "automatically downloads" site, nici ezy retriever

Thank you Jackburton. :-)

Way to go... a trip down download.com,
but you didn't even get the best ones:


http://www.httrack.com/

and

http://www.flashgot.net/whats
(for firefox)



I ban grabbers like these though, so sometimes they won't work on all sites.

WGET.exe for windows.   It also supports SSL pages and best of all its free.
http://allserv.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/

Actual download.   http://allserv.ugent.be/~bpuype/cgi-bin/fetch.pl?dl=wget/wget.exe

command to make a website mirror is.
wget.exe -m http://thewebsiteyouwanttomirrorgoeshere/

I agree with the other commenters.

http://www.httrack.com/

and

WGET.exe for windows.

are good ones to use.

Another free one is webreaper:

http://www.webreaper.net

Try these free ones before the non-free ones.  These are the only ones
I've heard about.  Never heard about the ones mentioned above that you
have to pay for.

Get flash get it works the best.

FlashGet is specifically designed to address two of the biggest
problems when downloading files:
Speed and management of downloaded files.

If you've ever waited forever for your files to download from a slow
connection, or been cut off mid-way through a download - or just can't
keep track of your ever-growing downloads - FlashGet is for you.

FlashGet can split downloaded files into sections, downloading each
section simultaneously, for an increase in downloading speed from 100%
to 500%. This, coupled with FlashGet's powerful and easy-to-use
management features, helps you take control of your downloads like
never before.

http://www.amazesoft.com/

Thank you everyone for the comments, they were valueable, specially
the FlashGet one from David1977. :-)

-Mao