WISH LIST: A Web-site Archiver with the following...

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I'd like something on the order of WinHTTrack but with these important
controls:

1. The ability to download the web site's "home page" and then select
from that page the individual links to subsequently download. This
process should be as simple as a "point-and-click".

2. The ability to continue to do the above on each page as it is
downloaded.

3. The ability to select which elements of a page to download. For
example, when downloading a history web site that is sponsored by a
series of commercial "banners", I'd like to be able to first have the
page downloaded with no graphics (just "place-holders" that indicated
where the graphic should be) and then "right-click" to choose to have
it downloaded on the next pass.

4. The ability to mix-and-match how the "depth" to archive and the
choice to archive external links or not. Example: Perhaps on the home
page links (still using the example of the history site) I do not wish
to archive any external pages relating to the Civil War but do wish to
download everything relating to the link on 18th Century English
history; this again would ideally be "point-and-click" simple.

Is there anything like this out there?

Admittedly, for most tasks, WinHTTrack is absolutely wonderful, but I
cannot help but continue to wish for these "tweaking" abilities to
simplify the process on many sites.

Thanks!

Fuzzy Head
 
Fuzzy Top said:
I'd like something on the order of WinHTTrack but with these important
controls:

1. The ability to download the web site's "home page" and then select
from that page the individual links to subsequently download. This
process should be as simple as a "point-and-click".

2. The ability to continue to do the above on each page as it is
downloaded.

3. The ability to select which elements of a page to download. For
example, when downloading a history web site that is sponsored by a
series of commercial "banners", I'd like to be able to first have the
page downloaded with no graphics (just "place-holders" that indicated
where the graphic should be) and then "right-click" to choose to have
it downloaded on the next pass.

4. The ability to mix-and-match how the "depth" to archive and the
choice to archive external links or not. Example: Perhaps on the home
page links (still using the example of the history site) I do not wish
to archive any external pages relating to the Civil War but do wish to
download everything relating to the link on 18th Century English
history; this again would ideally be "point-and-click" simple.

Is there anything like this out there?

Admittedly, for most tasks, WinHTTrack is absolutely wonderful, but I
cannot help but continue to wish for these "tweaking" abilities to
simplify the process on many sites.

Thanks!

Fuzzy Head


I use web reaper
http://www.webreaper.net/

works excellent!
 
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