Tools for Downloading Web Pages

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Do you need to gather research for a project but don't have the time to sift through every page of the websites that you find? Download the entire website, certain topics, or certain types of files with web page downloading tools. These tools are also convenient when you need to back up your entire website to your computer.

Blue Crab

Blue Crab is a utility tool that will download entire web sites so that you may browse them offline. This program will download HTML, PDF, graphics, movies, and audio files. Collect specific aspects of websites, such as the business owner's contact information.

What if you need to download a bunch of files at once? Blue Crab can do this with a process called "batch downloading." Blue Crab is Mac compatible.

SiteSucker is another Mac utility downloader tool that runs on Intel and PowerPC Macs. Like Blue Crab, it will conduct batch downloading. Once the utility starts downloading, you may let it run, pause the download, or stop it.

Configure what types of files you would like to download and which types you don't. For example, you can configure SiteSucker to download text files only to save space on your hard drive.

PageNest can download up to forty files or several websites at once, thanks to its multi-threaded downloading feature. Download or exclude any file type or size, while preserving the site's original folder structure. You can specify the size limitations when you configure PageNest.

Open files with PageNest's built-in browser or your own browser. Organize your site file folders by dragging them where you want them to be. Set your downloads to occur at night or to automatically update regularly. PageNest is PC compatible.

SurfOffline has one of the fastest downloading speeds on the web downloader market, downloading up to 100 files simultaneously. View the website in the built-in web browser when the download finishes.

Filter your downloads by file types, file size, and URL filters. The offline browser will support web protocols and web technologies. That means that you can download secure sites (HTTPS) and sites that are heavy with Flash and JavaScript. SurfOffline is PC compatible.

Web2Disk will back up your website on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. It will crawl every page of a website and download a copy to your computer. Every time you open that folder, the program will automatically update the pages it downloads so that you don't have to do it manually.

Copy your website onto a CD or USB drive to distribute to customers. They do not need additional software to open your site once they load the CD or USB drive into their computers. Web2Disk is PC compatible.