7 Website Copying Programs

There are plenty of reasons to work offline with websites. Researchers, students, journalists, business people, marketers, and anyone who spends hours on the web can benefit from downloading entire websites for use in an offline browser. Offline browsers provide quick load times with no wait time like you encounter on the internet. Here are several website copying programs you can try.

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SurfOffline

SurfOffline is fast website download software and an offline browser. With SurfOffline, you decide how many elements you want to download—you're not limited to pages, and you don't need to have FTP on your site to download with this program. Features include the ability to download up to 100 files simultaneously and options to include all images, video and audio files. You can download password-protected web pages and password-protected websites (HTTP and FTP authentication).

SurfOffline is compatible with Windows 10, 8.1, 8.7, Vista and XP. A 30-day free trial is available.

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Website eXtractor

Website eXtractor is a great tool for anyone whose work requires hours of online research. Download entire websites or just the parts you specify. Use the user-friendly control panel of this offline browser to view the structure of a website with an online and offline sitemap or create an exact duplicate of a website on a disc. Select documents by type, names or other filtering options. You can download only the first few pages of any given site and skip over parts you don't need.

Website eXtractor is compatible with Windows 7 and earlier Windows versions. A trial version is available.

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SiteSucker

Sitesucker is a Mac program that automatically downloads websites and changes to them from the internet. It copies the pages, images, style sheets, PDFs and other elements to your hard drive. Just enter a URL into SiteSucker, and it downloads an entire website.

Sitesucker requires Mac OS X 10.11 or higher and is available from the Mac App Store. Earlier versions are available from the SiteSucker website for older Mac operating systems.

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Grab-a-Site

Grab-a-Site is one of two offline browsers from Blue Squirrel. Grab-a-Site copies one page or an entire site to your computer, along with all the supporting files including graphic files, videos and sound files. You can schedule the download at off-peak hours. This program can grab files from multiple websites at the same time.

Grab-a-Site grabs sites written in PHP, ASP, JR and Cold Fusion and turns them into static HTML.

A free trial version is available. Grab-a-Site is compatible with Win98, ME, NT, XP, Vista and Windows 7.

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WebWhacker 5

Blue Squirrel's second offline browser is WebWhacker 5. It copies entire websites to your hard drive for offline review, to serve as a training site for students, or as an archive. Like Grab-a-Site it can be set up to run at off-peak hours. The software monitors websites for changes and updates you on a daily or weekly basis. It provides you with a list of any broken links. WebWhacker duplicates the directory structure of a website.

A free trial version is available. WebWhacker 5 is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.

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HTTrack

HTTrack offline browser utility lets you pull entire websites from the internet, to a local directory. It does a fantastic job of retrieving HTML and images to your computer. It also captures the original site's link structure. HTTrack is configurable to customize your downloads. HTTrack doesn't support Flash sites or intensive Java and Javascript sites.

WinHTTrack is compatible with Windows 2000 through Windows 10. It is a free download.

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Web Site Downloader

Use Web Site Downloader to download webpages, graphics, audio and everything else all at once. The software puts your files in folders just the way they are on your website so they are easy to find. You can customize Web Site Downloader to do exactly what you tell it to do. The software has a filter feature you can use to tell it what not to download.

Web Site Downloader is compatible with Windows 7 and earlier.