saving a website offline

tonycondon

tonycondon

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so lets say there is a website that you want to have access to offline. how do you save a copy of it so that you don't have to have internet access to view it? what about saving multiple webpages that are linked together? how do you get all the links to work?
 
I think you ask Jesse, and he uses magic Internet Mojo...
 
Print each page as a PDF. They won't update or anything, but you can still look at them.
 
Front Page used to do that but I haven't used it in a long while. I haven't needed to do this on anything but my own pages lately so I don't know the current tools.

How well it works for off-line viewing depends on how they do their links. Relative links work fine but absolute urls don't.

May I ask what pages/sites you're looking for?

Joe
 
The desire is to have the pages available for display on the computer, not on paper.
 
steingar said:
Print each page as a PDF. They won't update or anything, but you can still look at them.
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Y'know, I forgot about that...

...if you have the full version of Acrobat, you can use its "Web Capture" function, which downloads and saves an entire web site (obviously, only static content).

Works pretty well (or it used to, I have not used it for a couple of years).
 
tonycondon said:
The desire is to have the pages available for display on the computer, not on paper.
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The pdf approach is really not bad for that. The big thing missing is no links, tooltips or scripts but it does solve the problem of cross server links in a page.
 
it's a site that my cousin made for her 4H project. She's presenting her project at the fair and wants to be able to show the website as well. i suspect she made the website with some free webpage building program. I doubt she learned HTML. this is the website: http://mynewzealands.webs.com/
 
tonycondon said:
it's a site that my cousin made for her 4H project. She's presenting her project at the fair and wants to be able to show the website as well. i suspect she made the website with some free webpage building program. I doubt she learned HTML. this is the website: http://mynewzealands.webs.com/
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That's a pretty good website and I'm impressed by my first look at the webs.com tools.

However it does use fully qualified urls (not relative links) and links to other sites as well such as wikipedia. Maybe Jesse knows of a tool that will download multiple levels and rewrite the links.

Joe
 
I haven't done it in a while, but Microsoft Work used to give you the ability to save websites offline on your local computer.

It bloated them, but if you weren't planning on redistributing it, it might work.
 
I think we're seriously overloading that poor server...

-Rich
 
Scrapbook is a great addon for Firefox and does exactly what you want - assuming of course you are using FF.
 
thanks for the suggestions, i'll pass them along
 
If you put the buck in the doe's cage, the doe is very protective of her "territory" and may injure or even kill your buck.
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I find this is not limited to rabbits....:eek:
 
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