HTTrack

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HTTrack is a free and open source website copier and offline browser. It allows you to download a whole website to your local drive, so that you can access it offline. By default, HTTrack keeps the site's link-structure, so that the downloaded (or "mirrored") website can be browsed by opening a page of the site in a browser.

HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable by options and by filters (include/exclude), so that the extent and quality of download is customisable.

HTTrack can follow links that are generated with basic JavaScript and inside Applets or Flash, but not complex links (generated using functions or expressions) or server-side image maps.

This program can be useful when you want to browse a website you find interesting (e.g. a wiki site, a blog, or a site with multimedia content)offline or want to keep a copy locally on your PC (or USB memory stick). With the spread of broadband connections this might sound less useful than before, but HTTrack can avoid the need to reload the site if you have a slow internet connection, a connection that you use at your work place, or a website you want to show to other people. If you only wish to save a single page of a website, we would still suggest using a PDF printer.

WinHTTrack is the Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP release of HTTrack, and WebHTTrack the Linux/Unix/BSD release.

Available from http://www.httrack.com/