Web Site Downloaders

MetaProducts Offline Explorer is a program that allows you to download your favorite web sites (up to 100 simultaneously) for later offline viewing, editing or browsing. OE also has many web development features that will allow you to easily edit, view or browse (OE has a built-in internal browser.) your downloaded web pages. One of OE strengths is to allow you to selectively (include or exclude) individual servers, directories, and files using only keywords.

PageNest (formerly WebStripper) is an offline browser that allows you to copy web pages or entire sites to disk for viewing offline. It is fast and allows you to download many items at once. Just enter the address and off you go. The program offers several options to filter what is downloaded by file type/size including a text only option. Downloads can be paused/resume at any point. Additional features include the ability to only download new or updated pages, keep a "What s new" list, a file explorer and more. Free for personal use.

A1 Website Download enables you to download and archive entire websites for offline browsing or storage. The downloaded site(s) can be browsed without the need for an internet connection and can be placed on a CD/DVD or USB drive. The program supports website logins and cookies and automatically stores dynamic pages as static .html files. You can set a variety of filters and options that allows you to determine how links are followed and which pages to download. Other features include support for frames, redirects, multi-threaded operation, link conversion and more.

NeoDownloader is a multi-threaded tool for downloading pictures, audio files, videos and other media from web galleries. With NeoDownloader browsing the Web for pictures is made simple and easy - you drag the URL of a page, drop it on the Drop Basket and this smart utility explores it and downloads all images to your hard drive. You can immediately see everything you download and delete unwanted pictures. You can also set the program to explore the entire web site and retrieve only those images that you want. NeoDownloader provides a number of features to make image retrieval simple and easy, they include image filtering, image preview, a built-in image viewer and the option to set selected picture as Windows wallpaper. You also can keep selected URLs as projects, complete with your settings for the individual sites. This allows you to quickly access them in the future without having to change the program options or re-enter the URL.

Download Web sites and view them offline. WebCopier is an offline browser that downloads Web sites and stores them locally. It gives you instant access to critical Web sites at any time, regardless of where you are. WebCopier performs precise links searching, including JavaScript parsing, it can download up to 100 files simultaneously and print entire Web site or only specific part of it. WebCopier supports proxy servers, HTTP authorization and more.

SurfOffline is an offline browser, that allows you to download complete or partial websites and view them while you are offline. It comes with an easy to use interface and a step-by-step wizard that assists you in creating your offline projects. SurfOffline supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, proxy server connection, CSS and JavaScript parsing as well as HTTP authentication.

Website Ripper Copier is a multi-threaded website downloader, that allows you to download entire websites for offline browsing, extract specific file types, or create a an exact mirror of the site. It can update retrieved sites or files, launch more than fifty retrieval threads, resume broken downloads from the HTTP, HTTPS and FTP connections, access password-protected sites, support Web cookies, and analyze scripts. You can save your downloaded websites as project and update them as needed. It comes with a built-in link explorer that allows you to browse the site structure. Additional features include advanced filtering options, download resuming, and more.

BlackWidow is a web site scanner, site mapping tool, site ripper, site mirroring tool and an offline browsing program. Use it to scan a site and create a complete profile of the site's structure, files, E-mail addresses, external links and even link errors. You can then use it to download the entire site with all files intact, to use as a site mirror or to be converted by BlackWidow into a locally linked site for offline browsing and long-term reference. BlackWidow can also scan for and download any selection of files: from JPG to CGI to HTM to MIME types, from small to large files, in part of a site or in a group of sites. These pre-scan filtering options can save you countless on-line hours of searching and sorting. BlackWidow will scan HTTP sites, SSL sites (HTTPS) and FTP sites and supports plug-ins.

A Great Grabber is a file downloader, that can scan web addresses and download all files that match your criteria. It includes an integrated image viewer, audio player and video viewer to view the downloaded content. Just enter one or more URLs to scan and let the program spider them to retrieve the files. You can specify various filters to limit the download to files that meet your criteria. The filters can be based on file size, keywords, file type and other aspects. While downloading, Great Grabber can automatically show and play all found media files. Additional features include support for email extraction, disk space testing and more.

BrownRecluse is a programmable web spider that enables you to download and process data from web pages. It can be used as a simple website downloader or as advanced processing tool to populate databases with extracted information, scan and manipulate the data and more. The program requires some programming experience with Pascal, Java, VB or C++, as it uses a custom language to create the necessary scripts to download and process web pages.

Flash Saver is a tool to simplify the way of downloading Flash files to your local hard drive. It can work as a standalone application or as a handy IE plug-in, that will automatically list all .swf files on the current page by pressing F7. You can then choose which files to download, preview them and also select a category to classify them. To speed up download times, you can also choose to download the file from your local browser cache rather than the Internet.

Website Extractor is a program that you can use to download complete web pages and files from from Internet according to the settings you specify in the Project Options dialog. It features a keyword inclusion/exclusion list that allows you to limit downloads to the most relevant parts of a site. Every link in the file is checked against various limits that you can set in the Project Options: File Types, File Sizes, URL Filters, etc. The Status bar will display the number of processed files.

Picture Ace (formerly SavePicNoAsk PRO) lets you download large number of files from a web site automatically. Just enter a starting URL, set the file types you want to be downloaded and will do the work for you. To further target specific files, you can set filters to look for certain file sizes and skip files that match specified keywords. You can limit the downloads to the initial page, or have spider the site to a specified level. The downloaded images can be kept with their original name or automatically renamed to a number sequence. Additional features include proxy server support, Internet Explorer integration, search for links, delayed downloads, batch URLs processing and more.

Offline Commander lets you create local copies of entire Web sites, browse Web sites offline, organize your Web research, quickly save selected web pages to offline collections. All saved pages and sites are stored and indexed in a local SQL database and can be searched in depth (also via custom SQL query). The saved pages and sites can be browsed just as if they were online, complete with all images, links, dynamic content, embedded objects etc. You can specify the depth and what type of files to download, also specify URL patterns to match and more. Offline Commander has a tabbed browser interface and provides a drop box that you can use to quickly save pages from within Internet Explorer or any other browser.

Rip Clip is a handy tool to download web articles. It allows you to quickly add the page to be saved from the Internet Explorer right click menu. You can then analyze the structure of the site and include additional pages and items that you are interested in and exclude the rest. The downloaded pages can then be used for later reference or offline browsing.

RafaBot is a multi-threaded web spidering robot for bulk web site downloads. It can download entire websites from a starting URL, search engine results or web directories and optionally follow external links. The downloaded files are saved to your hard drive, so you can browse them offline. To limit the files that are downloaded, you can define several filters based on URL, date modified, keyword, file type, file size and more as well as the depth of the spidering process. The program cannot handle sites that contain Java script or dynamic content which limits the use to plain HTML sites.