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How can I download all pages from a website?

Any platform is fine.

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Check out serverfault.com/questions/45096/website-backup-and-download on Server Fault. – Marko Carter Jul 28 '09 at 13:55
@tnorthcutt, I'm surprised too. If I don't recall awfully wrong, my Wget answer used to be the accepted one, and this looked like a settled thing. I'm not complaining though — all of a sudden the renewed attention gave me more than the bounty's worth of rep. :P – Jonik Sep 17 '09 at 6:05
did you try IDM? superuser.com/questions/14403/… my post is buried down. What did you find missing in IDM? – Lazer Sep 21 '09 at 10:30
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@joe: Might help if you'd give details about what the missing features are... – Ilari Kajaste Sep 23 '09 at 11:06

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http://www.httrack.com/

HTTRACK works like a champ for copying the contents of an entire site. This tool can even grab the pieces needed to make a website with active code content work offline. I am amazed at the stuff it can replicate offline.

This program will do all you require of it.

Happy hunting!

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Beat me to it by 16 seconds! – Marko Carter Jul 28 '09 at 13:56
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Been using this for years - highly recommended. – Umber Ferrule Aug 9 '09 at 20:38
You can also limit the speed of download so you don't use too much bandwidth to the detriment of everyone else. – Umber Ferrule Aug 21 '09 at 22:18
Finally this one is bit better than others ;) – joe Sep 23 '09 at 13:33
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@Optimal Solutions: No, that's not possible. You'd need access to the servers or the source code for that. – Sasha Chedygov Mar 31 '10 at 7:08
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Wget is a classic command-line tool for this kind of task. It comes with most Unix/Linux systems, and you can get it for Windows too (newer 1.13.4 available here).

You'd do something like: 

wget -r --no-parent http://site.com/songs/

For more details, see Wget Manual and its examples, or e.g. these:

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There's no better answer than this - wget can do anything :3 – Phoshi Sep 16 '09 at 22:30
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+1, consider adding the mirror option. – nik Sep 19 '09 at 4:30
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+1 for including the --no-parent. definitely use --mirror instead of -r. and you might want to include -L/--relative to not follow links to other servers. – quack quixote Oct 9 '09 at 12:43
I don't think I've used --mirror myself so I didn't put it the answer. (And it's not really fully "self explanatory" like Paul's answer says...) If you want to elaborate on why it's better than -r I'd appreciate it! – Jonik Oct 9 '09 at 13:06
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@optimal, the HTML output of course - it would get the code only if the server was badly misconfigured – Jonik Mar 19 '10 at 15:17
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Use wget:

wget --mirror -p --html-extension --convert-links www.example.com

the options explained: 

-p                  get all images, etc. needed to display HTML page.  
--mirror            self explanatory  
--html-extension    save HTML docs with .html extensions  
--convert-links     make links in downloaded HTML point to local files.
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+1 for --mirror – Johan Sep 17 '09 at 7:09
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+1 for providing the explanations for the suggested options. (Although I don't think --mirror is very self-explanatory. Here's from the man page: "This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings. It is currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf --no-remove-listing") – Ilari Kajaste Sep 23 '09 at 11:04
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If you don’t want to download everything into a folder with the name of the domain you want to mirror, create your own folder and use the -nH option (which skips the host part). – Rafael Jan 3 '12 at 15:33
What about if the Auth is required? – Val May 13 at 16:04
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I'll address the online buffering that browsers use...

Typically most browsers use a browsing cache to keep the files you download from a website around for a bit so that you do not have to download static images and content over and over again. This can speed up things quite a bit under some circumstances. Generally speaking, most browser caches are limited to a fixed size and when it hits that limit, it will delete the oldest files in the cache.

ISPs tend to have caching servers that keep copies of commonly accessed websites like ESPN and CNN. This saves them the trouble of hitting these sites every time someone on their network goes there. This can amount to a significant savings in the amount of duplicated requests to external sites to the ISP.

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You should take a look at ScrapBook, a Firefox extension. It has an in-depth capture mode.

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I have not done this is many years, but there are still a few utilities out there. You might try Web Snake: http://www.websnake.com/web.snake.htm I believe I used it years ago. I remembered the name right away when I read your question.

I agree with Stecy. Please do not hammer their site. Very Bad.

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Internet Download Manager has a Site Grabber utility with a lot of options - which lets you completely download any website you want, the way you want it.

  1. You can set the limit on the size of the pages/files to download

  2. You can set the number of branch sites to visit

  3. You can change the way scripts/popups/duplicates behave

  4. You can specify a domain, only under that domain all the pages/files meeting the required settings will be downloaded

  5. The links can be converted to offline links for browsing

  6. You have templates which let you choose the above settings for you

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The software is not free however - see if it suits your needs, use the evaluation version.

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Here is a Firefox add-on that will download all the content (audio or video files, for example) for a particular web page in a single click. This doesn't download the entire site, but this may be sort of thing the question was looking for.

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I like Offline Explorer.
It's a shareware, but it's very good and easy to use.

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Try BackStreet Browser.

It is a free, powerful offline browser. A high-speed, multi-threading website download and viewing program. By making multiple simultaneous server requests, BackStreet Browser can quickly download entire website or part of a site including HTML, graphics, Java Applets, sound and other user definable files, and saves all the files in your hard drive, either in their native format, or as a compressed ZIP file and view offline.

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Teleport Pro is another free solution that will copy down any and all files from whatever your target is (also has a paid version which will allow you to pull more pages of content).

Teleport Pro

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