Is there some way to download a website for reference and/or backup purposes?
I have several friends who have been talking about this recently. For example, some academic websites are set up in conjunction with a year-long research project, and they are going to be eliminated on such and such a date. Someone finds the information on that website useful, and would like to download the entire thing …
Obviously, the interested person does not have any FTP codes or other way to log onto that server with some special access.
But we are just wondering if there are programs available which can assist in accomplishing such a task.
[quote=“Hartzell”]Is there some way to download a website for reference and/or backup purposes?
I have several friends who have been talking about this recently. For example, some academic websites are set up in conjunction with a year-long research project, and they are going to be eliminated on such and such a date. Someone finds the information on that website useful, and would like to download the entire thing …
Obviously, the interested person does not have any FTP codes or other way to log onto that server with some special access.
But we are just wondering if there are programs available which can assist in accomplishing such a task.
I’m not sure whether there are any copyright issues with using a program like that, though. Might be best to check with the website owner if there’s any doubt.
This is most likely what you’re looking for. I use it quite regularly and it works great.[/quote] httrack.com/ is free. The product in your link costs 70USD. Not saying that that one isn’t good or that commercial software is bad, but I’d suggest to Hartzell that he try httrack first at least.