How to Download an Entire Website for Offline Viewing

Website Download Tools 1. HTTrack httrack This free tool enables easy downloading for offline viewing. It allows the user to download a website from the internet to their local directory, where it will build the directory of the website using the HTML, files, and images from the server onto your computer. HTTrack will automatically arrange the structure of the original website. All that you need to do is open a page of the mirrored website on your own browser, and then you will be able to browse the website exactly as you would be doing online. You will also be able to update an already downloaded website if it has been modified online, and you can resume any interrupted downloads. The program is fully configurable, and even has its own integrated help system. 2. GetLeft get left To use this website grabber, all that you have to do is provide the URL, and it downloads the complete website, according to the options that you have specified. It edits the original pages as well as the links to relative links so that you are able to browse the site on your hard disk. You will be able to view the sitemap prior to downloading, resume an interrupted download, and filter it so that certain files are not downloaded. 14 languages are supported, and you are able to follow links to external websites. GetLeft is great for downloading smaller sites offline, and larger websites when you choose to not download larger files within the site itself. 3. Cyotek Webcopy cyotek This free tool can be used to copy partial or full websites to your local hard disk so that they can be viewed later offline. WebCopy works by scanning the website that has been specified, and then downloading all of its contents to your computer. Links that lead to things like images, stylesheets, and other pages will be automatically remapped so that they match the local path. Because of the intricate configuration, you are able to define which parts of the website are copied and which are not. Essentially, WebCopy looks at the HTML of a website to discover all of the resources contained within the site. 4. SiteSucker site sucker This application is used only on Mac computers, and is made to automatically download websites from the internet. It does this by collectively copying the website's individual pages, PDFs, style sheets, and images to your own local hard drive, thus duplicating the website's exact directory structure. All that you have to do is enter the URL and hit enter. SiteSucker will take care of the rest. Essentially you are making local copies of a website, and saving all of the information about the website into a document that can be accessed whenever it is needed, regardless of internet connection. You also have the ability to pause and restart downloads. Websites may also be translated from English into French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. 5. GrabzIt grabz it In addition to grabbing data from websites, it will grab data from PDF documents as well with the scraping tool. First, you will need to identify the website or sections of websites that you want to scrape the data from and when you would like it to be done. You will also need to define the structure that the scraped data should be saved. Finally, you will need to define how the data that was scraped should be packaged—meaning how it should be presented to you when you browse it. This scraper reads the website in the way that it is seen by users, using a specialized browser. This specialized browser allows the scraper to lift the dynamic and static content to transfer it to your local disk. When all of these things are scraped and formatted on your local drive, you will be able to use and navigate the website in the same way that if it were accessed online