I am looking for a program that allows you to download entire websites to your computer for offline browsing. Does anyone know an app that does this? Thanks.

Yep. Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox...

See, whevever you visit a page, it gets stored in your browser's cache. I'm pretty sure you can set it so pages within a certain site are always available offline.

I'm assuming you don't have FTP access to the site(s) in question?

No, they are referring to something more than a Browser, for downloading an entire Web site.

http://webstripper.net/
Used to be Free but as with most free programs that became good/popular, it is now Shareware.

You could also Google for 'offline browsing' and I'm sure you'll find others.

For MAC, BlueCrab works great... http://www.pure-mac.com/offline.html

I have used the program called Webzip. It did a great job of grabbing all the files off the site. Please remember that this should not be used to access restricted files. Most likely you will not be able to download anything that you shouldn't. :)

Actually, I am using it to just download html. I purchased a portion of a website's content and the owner said to just grab it from the website (he is not sending me the files). So I figured there would be an easier way of just grabbing them all at once rather than having to go to each page individually and save them.

there is a famous programe for this called Metaproducts Offline Explorer.
I think URL is www.metaproducts.com or search in google.

If you have FrontPage, it can download all files to your hard drive. It works pretty well even with their older version like FrontPage 98.

Terry

LOL are there no linux people here?!

Wget recursive download!

Not really the best solution but you could create a php script to grab the site and pop it in mysql. using Output buffering and a few sql statments.

Someone please read my post you are making this needlessly complex...

With wget you can even specify a username/password if you need to grab a page underneath a logged-in area.

-Teleport Pro

Someone please read my post you are making this needlessly complex...

With wget you can even specify a username/password if you need to grab a page underneath a logged-in area.
Windows has made everything so complicated that no one understands how SIMPLE Linux is. :love: Linux!

And even if you're not on Linux there're several good WGet for Windows (http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+wget) programs that provide the same basic functionality... :usflag:

wget for windows all the way ;-)

try:

wget -m http://www.domain.com/

http://www.httrack.com/

Mostly this is use for people who have Dial Up connection. With a shot at the webripper one.

As mentioned above, TELEPORT PRO is what you are looking for! It's simply the best... NOT free though.

Try out the demo! It will be more than enough for you.

lol, this is interesting :)

Does the software not grab files u have to buy aswell though?? making it illegal?

dave

Yeah, I use wget too.