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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
  • browse-offline.com can download the complete tree of the web-site so you can ... browse it offline – Menelaos Vergis Mar 5 '14 at 13:11

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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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    Been using this for years - highly recommended. – Umber Ferrule Aug 9 '09 at 20:38
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    Would this copy the actual ASP code that runs on the server though? – Taptronic Mar 19 '10 at 13:02
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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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    After trying both httrack and wget for sites with authorization, I have to lean in favor of wget. Could not get httrack to work in those cases. – Leo May 18 '12 at 11:55
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    For macOS, use brew install httrack and then run it with httrack. It has a great menu after that. Easy peezie, lemon squeezie! – Joshua Pinter Nov 21 '19 at 17:31
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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. On a Mac, Homebrew is the easiest way to install it (brew install wget).

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 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
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    As I also asked for httrack.com - would this cmd line tool get the ASP code or would it just get the rendering of the HTML? I have to try this. This could be a bit worrisome for developers if it does... – Taptronic Mar 19 '10 at 13:04
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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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    doesn't work with the links, images, and others, so it is useless. The other answer with command wget -m -p -E -k www.example.com did all the jobs and display a website locally with proper links, images, format, etc, in so easy way. – BMW Jan 29 '20 at 6:27
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Use wget:

wget -m -p -E -k www.example.com

The options explained:

-m, --mirror            Turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite 
                          recursion depth, and keeps FTP directory listings.
-p, --page-requisites   Get all images, etc. needed to display HTML page.
-E, --adjust-extension  Save HTML/CSS files with .html/.css extensions.
-k, --convert-links     Make links in downloaded HTML point to local files.
-np, --no-parent        Don't ascend to the parent directory when retrieving 
                        recursively. This guarantees that only the files below 
                        a certain hierarchy will be downloaded. Requires a slash 
                        at the end of the directory, e.g. example.com/foo/.
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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 Bugajewski Jan 3 '12 at 15:33
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    What about if the Auth is required? – Val May 13 '13 at 16:04
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    I tried using your wget --mirror -p --html-extension --convert-links www.example.com and it just downloaded the index. I think you need the -r to download the entire site. – Eric Brotto Jul 14 '14 at 10:49
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    for those concerned about killing a site due to traffic / too many requests, use the -w seconds (to wait a number of secconds between the requests, or the --limit-rate=amount, to specify the maximum bandwidth to use while downloading – vlad-ardelean Jul 14 '14 at 18:33
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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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    No longer compatible with Firefox after version 57 (Quantum). – Yay295 Apr 16 '18 at 22:31
  • seems it is no longer available. – vchrizz Oct 6 '20 at 1:24
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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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I like Offline Explorer.
It's a shareware, but it's very good and easy to use.

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  • Very good and really easy to use windows software, in shareware mode it is able to download up to 2000 files which is enough for small websites. – vchrizz Oct 6 '20 at 1:23
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itsucks - that's the name of the program!

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  • Pity but the program is also the name ;) - I could not get it to work to download a website. – vchrizz Oct 6 '20 at 1:31
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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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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).

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WebZip is a good product as well.

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  • Link leads to Error 403 - This web app is stopped. – vchrizz Oct 6 '20 at 1:22
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I have not done this in many years, but there are still a few utilities out there. You might want to try Web Snake. 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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  • Nice! I searched for Snake for over 20 years and simply couldn't find it.Though I remember it as free. I remember (or want to believe) it was much much better than what was later on the major download programs suggested on forums or by web search engines.- Only comparable some years later was the early free version of what would later on be available as the the above mentioned OfflineExplorer. The free versions stopped working properly somehow after that. (But I fully understand the programmer.) – John Nov 27 '19 at 1:22
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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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DownThemAll 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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  • It's only capable of downloading links (HTML) and media (images). – Ain Sep 26 '17 at 17:07
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For Linux and OS X: I wrote grab-site for archiving entire websites to WARC files. These WARC files can be browsed or extracted. grab-site lets you control which URLs to skip using regular expressions, and these can be changed when the crawl is running. It also comes with an extensive set of defaults for ignoring junk URLs.

There is a web dashboard for monitoring crawls, as well as additional options for skipping video content or responses over a certain size.

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Power wget

While wget was already mentioned this resource and command line was so seamless I thought it deserved mention: wget -P /path/to/destination/directory/ -mpck --user-agent="" -e robots=off --wait 1 -E https://www.example.com/

See this code explained on explainshell

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The venerable FreeDownloadManager.org has this feature too.

Free Download Manager has it in two forms in two forms: Site Explorer and Site Spider:

Site Explorer
Site Explorer lets you view the folders structure of a web site and easily download necessary files or folders.
HTML Spider
You can download whole web pages or even whole web sites with HTML Spider. The tool can be adjusted to download files with specified extensions only.

I find Site Explorer is useful to see which folders to include/exclude before you attempt attempt to download the whole site - especially when there is an entire forum hiding in the site that you don't want to download for example.

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Save Page WE

Excellent extension for both Chrome and Firefox that downloads most/all of a web page's content and stores it directly into .html file.

Google Chrome Extension

Firefox Extension

I noticed that on a picture gallery page I tried it on, it saved the thumbnails but not the full images. Or maybe just not the JavaScript to open the full pictures of the thumbnails.

But, it worked better than wget, PDF, etc. Great simple solution for most people's needs.

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You can use below free online tools which will make a zip file of all contents included in that url

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Cyotek WebCopy seems to be also a good alternative. For my situation, trying to download a DokuWiki site, it currently seems to lack support for CSRF/SecurityToken. Thats why I actually went for Offline Explorer as stated already in answer above.

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A1 Website Download for Windows and Mac is yet another option. The tool has existed for nearly 15 years and has been continuously updated. It features separate crawl and download filtering options with each supporting pattern matching for "limit to" and "exclude".

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download HTTracker it will download websites very easy steps to follows.

download link:http://www.httrack.com/page/2/

video that help may help you :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IHIGf6lcL4

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  • -1 duplicate of top answer – wjandrea Sep 24 '17 at 7:28
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Firefox can do it natively (at least FF 42 can). Just use "Save Page"

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    Wrong! The question asks how to save an entire web site. Firefox cannot do that. – user477799 Jul 26 '16 at 6:24
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    Your method works only if it's a one-page site, but if the site has 699 pages? Would be very tiring... – Quidam Dec 15 '16 at 7:03
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I believe google chrome can do this on desktop devices, just go to the browser menu and click save webpage.

Also note that services like pocket may not actually save the website, and are thus susceptible to link rot.

Lastly note that copying the contents of a website may infringe on copyright, if it applies.

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    A web page in your browser is just one out of many of a web site. – Arjan May 16 '15 at 20:05
  • @Arjan I guess that makes my option labor intensive. I believe it is more common for people to just want to save one page, so this answer may be better for those people who come here for that. – jiggunjer May 17 '15 at 10:10

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