Comments on: Create A Cached Website Copy

By: Dermot

Dermot — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:26:25 +0000

If I want to browse all the previous articles on a website like ghacks.net, I can either spend a very long time browsing all the webpages online (currently over 1,000 pages), or download the whole website with HTTrack. However the individual article URL’s are so well named that if there were a way for me to download or generate a list of the URL’s only under http://www.ghacks.net, for instance, it would make it much quicker & easier to browse them offline, in my own time. Then it is just a matter of typing in the URL online to go to the article itself.
Does anyone know if there is a way to do this?
Thanks

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:42:45 +0000

Another solution for Firefox users is Scrapbook.
It can capture pages, elements of pages & allows in-depth capture of a site.
The files are saved in a unique folder for each capture, therefore a full site with a complicated folder structure will all be saved (with parsed links) to a single folder.
It has an import/export tool so the capture can then be exported to another location. I use it to save archives & to view them on devices that aren’t connected to the web & don’t have Firefox installed.
In-depth capture starts but to make sure it doesn’t follow all links, it’s best to pause the capture at the beginning & specify limited to the domain name or directory file structure within the domain.
http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/
This extension was the reason I switched to Firefox & I use it every day (snippets etc).

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:28:04 +0000

Another option for finding a long-lost site that’s more effective than trying to use the google cache is using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org (which also allows you to see older versions of a site that’s still up).

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:08:10 +0000

I cache my blog, http://vartak.blogspot.com by using this hack:
I set the number of posts per view to a high number and then use the email address webinbrowser to send a copy of the page to my Gmail :)