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Website Grabber | Offline Browser
Today, we had a client call us and ask if we can ’save’ their website from an aggressive website designer that is holding their site hostage. I told them yes and thought an easy solution would be to find a utility that allowed us to easily clone/grab their website. I must say, I was surprised at the difficulty in finding a free utility to do this.
Part of the problem came from the search terms I started with. I thought this would be called a ’site grabber’ – and many paid utilities thought the same :) I then switched to Website Clone, but to no avail. Finally, I that download.com called these utilities “Offline Browsers”. Doing a quick search for Offline Browser struck gold!
I found an open-source utility called HTTrack (http://www.httrack.com/) that does exactly what I needed. Website saved!
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You could have just had Chris run a recursive wget. I used that to download the full NashvilleIsTalking archives for Brittney.
Nice tool! Does it copy PHP (or ASP, etc) code too? I’d be a little nervous about that as a web developer.
Heh.. I was going to reply saying basically the same thing.
By no way it can grab php code since this is server parsed not what the browser is seeing.
curl might also be handy for the same job.
Basically it is wget == easy, httpget, many options nice GUI, curl most options but a little bit harder to master