Tool to download websites ?

KingL

I'm off to somewhere where free-time is plentiful and internet access is limited, so I thought It'd be good to download (largish sections of) a few reference websites that I can keep on a HDD and read on a netbook as if they were ebooks.

Is there a way to readily store websites (or specified sections of websites) locally and to recall them when offline in a managable way?

I haven't got time to go through page by page, printing each one off to cute pdf or doing file..save as, I'm looking for something a bit more automated.


I don't use IE anymore, but I seem to remember something in there that let you mark favourites (plus a specifiable depth of child links) as readable offline, but (1) I can't see anything similar in firefox and (2) IIRC it was pretty unmanagable to retrieve stuff once you got past the first 58 bookmarked pages.

Is there anything free software out there that would make this do-able? I'm on MS XP, Firefox, and have a few hundred GB to play with....

Spank

1 Open up a Firefox window.

2 Click on the "Bookmarks" menu and select "Manage Bookmarks..." In case of Firefox 3.6.2 select "Organize Bookmarks..."

3 Click on the "File" menu and select "Export" in the window that pops up. In case of Firefox 3.6.2, click on "Import and Backup." Select "Export HTML." A save option will appear.

4 Give your bookmarks whatever title you like and choose a location to save them in the save window that comes up.

5 Open this file on any computer with a Web browser and click on the links to go to each bookmark, now that your bookmarks are saved as an HTML file. You can also import them into the bookmarks or favorites menu of another computer.

Donnie

I used to use Webzip for that purpose. Search Sourceforge for free open source versions.

calvin951

Go to the website click file >> save page as and click save.

Ximian

I use http://flashgot.net/ integrates with Firefox, can download links, or all content on the page.

GeoffX

FreeDownloadManager has a web spider. ( That's http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/, not .com or whatever )

prowla

Yep the tools to do this are called spiders.

Jenna_Appleseed

Spank wrote: »

1 Open up a Firefox window.

2 Click on the "Bookmarks" menu and select "Manage Bookmarks..." In case of Firefox 3.6.2 select "Organize Bookmarks..."

3 Click on the "File" menu and select "Export" in the window that pops up. In case of Firefox 3.6.2, click on "Import and Backup." Select "Export HTML." A save option will appear.

4 Give your bookmarks whatever title you like and choose a location to save them in the save window that comes up.

5 Open this file on any computer with a Web browser and click on the links to go to each bookmark, now that your bookmarks are saved as an HTML file. You can also import them into the bookmarks or favorites menu of another computer.

doesn't that just save the list of bookmarks and not the actual websites?

Ximian

Jenna_Appleseed wrote: »

doesn't that just save the list of bookmarks and not the actual websites?

Yep, that's all it does

Pikeyp

You can mirror an entire web-site on your hard-drive if you want .. all of it! .. and read it later off-line.

Have a look at http://www.httrack.com/