Best Free Web Site Ripper
HTTrack is one impressive product: it's easy to use, has an excellent user interface, offers every feature you could want, while being blindingly fast and free of any adware. If you like to download web sites so that you can "browse them offline", this is the product to get. HTTrack is compatible with all windows versions, and is GPL licensed freeware. WinHTTrack is the Windows release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack is the Linux release. There are no official binaries supplied for the Mac OS, but the FAQ list details on how they can be compiled from the original source files.
Alternatively, there is the free edition of PageNest, which allows you to download and categorize websites, as well as browse them within the programs own viewer. PageNest can also show what new or updated content has added to an archived website. The Pro version of PageNest, among other things, adds the ability to schedule auto-updates to archived sites.
The third program in this category, Local Website Archive (Lite Edition), only allows you to download web pages and other documents on the web. However, it as good integration with Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer, allowing you to capture a web pages URL directly from the browser. Unlike HTTrack or PageNest, this program has a built in search facility, which identifies the pages that a word or phrase appears in, and highlights the words in the document. It also has the useful ability to zip up a stored page, so it can be emailed.
Another contender in this category is GetLeft, an open-source freeware product that allows you to download entire web sites or single webpages. It can change all the links to ensure that the downloaded site is still functinoal, can resume downloads if the connections is poor or lost, and can also follow links to external sites, meaning it can download pages from external sites also. However, it only processes the HTML, so it won't process files embedded with JavaScript
Website: http://www.httrack.com/
Download page: http://www.httrack.com/page/2/en/index.html
Author: Xavier Roche & other contributors
Current version: 3.42
Version date: 19th March, 2008
License: Free - GPL Open Source
Download File size: 3.3MB
Operating Systems Supported: Windows 95 – Vista, Mac, and various Linux distributions
64 bit version available: Untested
Portable version available: No, but zip file version available
Non-English languages supported: Many; Available via downloadable language packs
Website: http://www.pagenest.com/
Download page: http://www.pagenest.com/download.html
Author: Mike Sutton
Current version: 3.04
Version date: December 2008
License: Free – For personal use only
Download File size: 1.74MB
Operating Systems Supported: Windows 98 - Vista
64 bit version available: Untested
Portable version available: No
Non-English languages supported: None
Other relevant information: Commercial version available
Local Website Archive
Website: http://www.aignes.com/lwa.htm
Download page: http://www.aignes.com/lwa.htm
Author: Aignesberger Software GmbH
Current version: 2.1.0
Version date: 26th March, 2008
License: Free – for personal use
Download File size: 1.5 MB
Operating Systems Supported: Windows 95 - Vista
64 bit version available: Untested
Portable version available: Yes, installer has USB option
Non-English languages supported: Possibly Russian
Other relevant information: Commercial version available
GetLeft
Website: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/getleft/english/
Download page: http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/getleft/english/download.html
Author: Andrés García
Current version: 1.2
Version date: 21st January, 2008
License: Free
Download File size: 2.5 MB
Operating Systems Supported: Windows 95 - Vista, Linux and Mac OS X
64 bit version available: Yes, seperate download
Portable version available: Yes, GetLeftToGo
Non-English languages supported: Many (Spanish, Korean, Italian, etc)
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Does any of these support support saving web pages into single file, like .chm ?
WinWSD WebSite Downloader
http://www.download.com/WinWSD-WebSite-Downloader/3000-2377_4-10562531.h...
QuadSucker/Web (nagware, but good)
http://www.quadsucker.com/quadweb/
for firefox users you have scapbook or clipmarks. i use scrapbook, it's excelent.
I have used a program called Cyberarticle Express for a couple of years now. Free for personal use. No nagware. Not crippled in any way. It is for storing web pages in books .. You can have as many (or few books) as you want and then store the pages in folders and subfolders. Each book can be as large as you like. It can save several layers of web pages (but I've never tried that mode).
It also has options to save the books as eBooks (.exe format) or .chm format. Also has many import/export options. Also has many conversion options for web pages. Handles foreign charactersets. Has templates. Has autobackup feature.
I initially tried HTTrack and webfetch and found them not nearly as good or reliable (or simple) .. but that was a couple of years ago. I have been using version 4.3.6.3 (still available at the site) I've not had any reason to update to version 5 that is now available.
Highly recommended .... this thing is very robust ... I started using it on WinME and thru the different updates of XP ... Have not tried it on Vista.
Link: http://www.wizissoft.com/
This is SPAM. Program is, or is going to be crippled as hell.
Just see this page:
http://www.wizissoft.com/ca/Viewdoc.aspx?pathid=ca_en_help_faq&docid=faq...
Yes, it's not free it's TRIAL !!! Don't download, SPAM.
Sadly, the Vista version is coming "real soon now". Can't wait to try it.
wegt with wgetGui interface!
Peter, would you talk about the ability of any and all of these programs to handle subscription sites which require logging in and password submission? — /s/ Joey Borda
Another very good one, fast, simple and easy to use is WebFetch. While it is listed as 1.0 beta and is dated June 199, it does it's job very well. It is a tiny 81Kb executable that shows a simple interface with just 3 buttons (Proxy, Go, Exit), 3 checkboxes (Images, External links, Recreate directories) and 3 input fields (URL, Save to location and Level - i.e. how deep to go or limit). The Limit checkbox is the one that allows you to download just a single level of a page, or parse the HTML code in each page and suck down every other file or link referenced.
http://www.wimsprograms.com/programs.html#webfetch
I tried HTTrack a few months ago and quickly threw it away in favor of WebFetch. I don't remember all the details, but I think HTTrack was just quirky and not always reliable for me, as well as leaving traces all over the registry while one of my preferences is for portable apps that don't need a formal install procedure (at least for all the little add on utilities I use), and don't dump junk all over.
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