Website 'slurping' software
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BliarOut

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72,863 posts

270 months

Monday 19th March 2007
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Does anyone have any recommendations for a bit of software (free of course ) that will 'slurp' the entire contents of a website including all the graphics etc and save it locally? I need to download an entire copy of a site and the customer "can't find" the username and password at the mo.

JonRB

80,156 posts

303 months

Monday 19th March 2007
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I used to have some software to do this, but I can't recall the name. If nobody else has replied by this evening then I'll have a look when I get home and post up the name if I find it.

Incidentally, "slurping" (as you put it) is considered fairly bad manners and many webmasters frown on it.

TheKeyboardDemon

713 posts

238 months

Monday 19th March 2007
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JonRB said:
Incidentally, "slurping" (as you put it) is considered fairly bad manners and many webmasters frown on it.
Even more so if you burp afterwards.

I get the impression that the person whose forgotten his password has admin rights or permission to manage the content on this site. If that's the case why not just contact the host and they email or reset the password for you.

If the site too big to view each page as html source and then save it seperately?

jamesuk28

2,176 posts

284 months

Monday 19th March 2007
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on most web design programmes (frontpage, expression web etc) you can import the entire site including all html, graphics css etc.

Dont use it to nick other peoples websites or graphics, there are lots oh hidden safeguards like digimarking the images or unique code. Not only would it be copyright theft, you could also be done for using specific features that are under license.



Edited by jamesuk28 on Monday 19th March 19:28

mattley

3,039 posts

253 months

Monday 19th March 2007
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Frontpage 2000 was astonishingly good at this... eek ... later versions are a little better behaved, if you see what I mean.

ThePassenger

6,962 posts

266 months

Monday 19th March 2007
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HTTRACK

One stop "off-line browser", very simple to use, can bypass robots.txt if required usual gamut of throttling and depth options.

Win32, OS X, *nix.

JonRB

80,156 posts

303 months

Monday 19th March 2007
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I see others have posted, but for what it's worth the program I used to use is IntelliTamper

Looks like it hasn't been updated for a while though.

Edit: I seem to have used httrack round about the same time as well, by the look of it.

Edited by JonRB on Monday 19th March 21:10

zumbruk

7,848 posts

291 months

Scraggles

7,619 posts

255 months

Monday 19th March 2007
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recall firefox has some good extensions, used it for grabbing entire websites when younger, ripping the code that they had ripped from somewhere else also helped, only use my own images with the exception of avatars, when i don't try and claim them as my own

jamesuk28

2,176 posts

284 months

Tuesday 20th March 2007
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mattley said:
Frontpage 2000 was astonishingly good at this... eek ... later versions are a little better behaved, if you see what I mean.


And 2003. Expression web at least asks you for the username and password.

Globulator

13,847 posts

262 months

Tuesday 20th March 2007
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