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Can I download a whole website or parts of it?
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Jbroad572
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Dec 5, 2003, 08:57 PM
 
I have a website online from my school, similar to blackboard, where there is a lot of information I need and want to save to a cd. It's where I may have 20 different pages and you view 1 at a time and at the bottom you have a back and next button, (continue on some).
My question is, there are like 3 different sections on line like this. Is there a way I can download these automatically, or will I have to download each page one at a time?
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Dec 5, 2003, 09:13 PM
 
go to versiontracker.com, look for "sitesucker", should do the trick!
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Jbroad572  (op)
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Dec 5, 2003, 09:20 PM
 
gonna go try it now. Thanks a million.
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Jbroad572  (op)
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Dec 5, 2003, 10:29 PM
 
The site requires login info. I don't guess Sitesucker can get around that. Anyway around this?
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Dec 5, 2003, 11:22 PM
 
Originally posted by Jbroad572:
The site requires login info. I don't guess Sitesucker can get around that. Anyway around this?
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Jbroad572  (op)
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Dec 6, 2003, 12:00 AM
 
No, school work. Its on a blackboard type of webpage.
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Dec 6, 2003, 01:43 AM
 

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Jbroad572  (op)
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Dec 6, 2003, 02:05 AM
 
I dont understand how to install this.

To build and install GNU Wget, you need to unpack the archive (which
you have presumably done, since you are reading this), and read on.
Like most GNU utilities, Wget uses the GNU Autoconf mechanism for
build and installation; those of you familiar with compiling GNU
software will feel at home."

I don't know about that, so I'm far away from home. Can someone help explain?
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Dec 6, 2003, 03:43 AM
 
Explorer 5.2 does this.
     
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Dec 6, 2003, 09:16 AM
 
Originally posted by motoyen:
Explorer 5.2 does this.
Yes, and it saves the site in a proprietary Web Archive file too. Useless outside Explorer.
     
Jbroad572  (op)
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Dec 6, 2003, 01:09 PM
 
Yea, I've been doing it manually through Netscape. It really sucks. I have like 100 more pages to do before 11:59 PM.
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Dec 8, 2003, 01:45 AM
 
Try iCab, it has a lot of options, includes user and password, so you will can download what you want. Of course you can define the ammount of levels of the site you want to download, the whole site, ...
     
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Dec 8, 2003, 02:00 PM
 
OS X comes with the 'curl' command, which I think can do what you need. Try 'man curl' to see.
     
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Dec 8, 2003, 05:34 PM
 
I'll start this by saying that I have been very disappointed with Adobe Acrobat since version 5 but this is one of the things that it is very useful for
There are lots of options for archiving web pages up to entire websites as a single pdf or lots of pdfs - with a record of the http links at the top of the page [like it looks when you print in explorer] and clickable http links and searchable text as you would expect in a pdf
If you open the web page in acrobat you can also browse the site as you would with a browser and acrobat will archive the pages that you click to

... so acrobat is an option
     
   
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