Download entire websites?

Is a website ripper copier specific to a browser?

I guess not, but just in case, is there such a tool for Firefox?

Thanks.

 

no. There are many website copiers out there. The one
I use is webcopier: http://www.maximumsoft.com/

Another is winhttrack: http://www.httrack.com/

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no. There are many website copiers out there. The one
I use is webcopier: http://www.maximumsoft.com/

Another is winhttrack: http://www.httrack.com/

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http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm

 

Responding to John Doe:

The Swiss Army knife of webgrabbing tools = wget

 

So far, I have been able to stop it from renaming *.asp files.

My current problem is getting it to stop corrupting the links to
those files.

How do you force it to use the original link properties for copied
links? It sticks the current folder name to the beginning of links on
that page.

For example... from this page...
http://vocola.net/v2/default.asp
....it adds "v2" to all of the links.

Is there a way to make it replace the domain name
"http://vocola.net/" with the local folder name, leaving all other
link properties text the same?

Thanks.

 

I have no idea what you're talking about or how this
relates to webcopier!

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http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm

 

You must be joking.

 

Responding to John Doe:

Go read up on wget. Its the tool you need.

 

Yeah, I heard you the first time. But seriously... simply replacing
the domain with the local folder path in links is not rocket science.

 

I used to use Teleport Ultra to download websites and it would change
the links to correspond with the local folders. Although I found it
difficult to use at times it did work once it was setup properly.

Though I haven't used the program Peter recommended, I would almost bet
that somewhere in the setup is a way to make it change the links to
the local folders, after all the one of the main points of downloading
the website is to be able to browse it locally.

 

They could be relative URLs. Once you put the HTML page in a
different location, the relative URL is interpreted relative
to this new location.

Are you positively sure the downloader is re-writing then links,
like you appear to be claiming?

A. Did you check the HTML source code?

B. Have you tried moving the .html file to a different location
on your hard drive, and seeing whether the link changes with
the new location?

It is not clear whether
A. you want the downloader to not re-write links at all, leaving
them as per the original (be it relative or absolute links)
or
B. You want the downloader to convert relative links into absolute
links (re-writing the HTML), so that when you put the .html
file in a different location the links are not relative to
the new location.

 

Since it will be on my hard drive, it will be in a different
location.

Of course it is rewriting the links. When you reference a page on your
hard drive, you cannot use the website link as it was.

No, I right clicked and selected Properties.

Why would a link change when I move a file in Windows?

As stated, I do not want the links to remain precisely the same.
What I want done is in my last short and concise paragraph.

The matter is really very simple IMO. As stated above, I want the
website copier to replace the domain with the local folder and leave
everything else the way it is in the link properties.

Maybe it is rocket science, but it seems very simple to me. Have
the downloader just replace the link domain name with the folder
name. Is that difficult to understand?

 

maybe you're making too much of a big deal out of it

 

Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe you are expecting a very
difficult question and that mindset does not allow you to comprehend
a simple question.