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I'm looking for a web sites 'dumper'
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martinez
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Dec 22, 2007, 10:07 AM
 
Hello,

I'm looking for a kind of www sites 'dumper' (or web site logger if you like) for Mac OS X 10.5.
Basically for a tool that will save website on my hard disk or/and to PDF file in case of text.
There is similar tool on Windows called HTTTrack that can do this.

Do you know whereas something like this exists on Mac OS X ?

Thanks in advance for answers!
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Dec 22, 2007, 10:56 AM
 
Single pages you can simply do File->Save As... (Format: WebArchive) in Safari. You can also do File->Print and save as PDF in any OS X web browser.

There is also something like this

SiteSucker Home Page

which I personally never tried, so I do not recommend it.
     
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Dec 22, 2007, 11:05 AM
 
I've used sitesucker before, and it works well for what it does. Don't know if that fits the bill for you though.
     
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Dec 22, 2007, 11:36 AM
 
SiteSucker is likely a front end to Unix wget. You can install wget through Macports or Fink. It is a very useful tool for developers, as not only will it download websites for you, but it will also spider through your site the same way a search engine bot will, giving you an ideal what is and isn't accessible to search engines.
     
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Dec 22, 2007, 01:31 PM
 
SiteSucker will work fine for your purposes.
     
onlyone-jc
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Dec 22, 2007, 02:49 PM
 
Paparazzi! is great for saving (single-page) websites to PDF/image files.

Download [Here]
     
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Dec 22, 2007, 05:19 PM
 
So is "File" --> "Print" --> "PDF" button --> "Save to PDF..."
     
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Dec 22, 2007, 05:36 PM
 
I tried Paparazzi and it has 3 potentially really good advantages over File->Print:

1) It does not use the print style sheet, so you get the same result as what you see on screen.
2) It does not split the web page onto multiple print pages.
3) It preserves functional links. Very nice.
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analogika
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Dec 22, 2007, 05:58 PM
 
Ah, cool!
     
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Dec 22, 2007, 09:42 PM
 
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Dec 23, 2007, 05:07 AM
 
I love Yojimbo (Bare Bones Software) because you can either print to a PDF or save an archive of a web page. Combined with Quicksilver this can be done super fast like! Plus, when you do this you can keep them tagged and organized, etc.

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