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Recommendation for offline web browser?

post #1 of 9
9/5/04 at 8:04am
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Hi All.

Just wondering what you guys use / recommend for browsing offline. It needs to be able to pull in links from about four levels for the website I want to have offline...

Any recommendations highly appreciated (shareware / freeware also preffered as this is highly likely a one off)

Cheers!
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post #2 of 9
9/5/04 at 9:08am
I dont understand.
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post #3 of 9
9/5/04 at 9:11am
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Basically, I want to 'download' a website that i'm not totally sure will be online for very long (a parody of a government warning booklet)... that is split up across several links (within the site)

I could save each individual page to my HD, but i'm just wondering if there is a program that downloads the whole website in one hit - including all linked pages for offline viewing
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post #4 of 9
9/5/04 at 9:18am
Duncan, you can do this in Internet Explorer. Select favourites , then add to favourites, then tick the box by make available offline and finally click the customize button and follow the wizard.

Hope this helps.
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post #5 of 9
9/5/04 at 9:40am
yeah... i was gonna say that
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post #6 of 9
9/5/04 at 9:50am
about 5 years ago when I still had only dialup (ugh!) I used programs that saved websites a lot to save on telephone costs (didn't help in the end though )
You can get adobe acrobat to do it, that works pretty well (not the free reader but the full program)
Take a look on tucows or search with google there are also lots of freeware / shareware programs that do it.
Problem that I often had was that bad linking within sites screwed up the programs (they simply stopped downloading the sites) or that links were not followed through enough to make normal browsing really possible.
Maybe current generation offline browsers are a bit better, the last site I downloaded (with fast broadband) was stereophile.
That took about 100 Mb space or so, I did this with acrobat (v.5 at that time I think) and it works pretty well since even if the links get screwed up you can just scroll down in all the single pages, everything will be accessible even if the links are not converted well.
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post #7 of 9
9/5/04 at 9:57am
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Nice one... thanks a lot guys

Case closed
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post #8 of 9
9/6/04 at 6:46am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Duncan
Nice one... thanks a lot guys

Case closed
Duncan, if you don't mind I woud like to open your case again and recommend WebZIP, it's an offline browser which can download the entire website with all its subdirectories upon your specifications. I guess this is what you're looking for.

There should definitely more (even freeware) programs like WebZIP (which isn't for free), just search "offline browser" via google or other search engine.
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post #9 of 9
9/6/04 at 3:11pm
Try HTTrack , You can download websites and links just about as deep as you want.
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