Downloading Websites?

I used to think of myself as an intermediate computer user, then I found your forums and think even the people in the beginners forum here are elite. I’m doing a Midlife Crisis, Career Change, Evil Genius (System Admin?) wannabe kinda thing.
I’ve heard about software that lets you download entire web sites for offline viewing. Preferably freeware, I ask this because my training budget will consist primarily of a ten dollar a month dialup Internet access. I’ve found sites with beginner’s tutorials online and I have something called WebZip and I was wondering if anyone knew if there was something better out there, Thankyou.

Welcome. I'm a little older than the average person here, I suspect (28, but certainly not mid-life, I hope!). Stick with it!

What operating system are you using? Windows, I assume?

If you're looking to be a sysadmin, you should pick up some perl. . .Here's a perl one-liner you can run from dos-prompt that will grab and store a page for you into a file.



Not exactly what you're looking for, but cool nonetheless. Doesn't IE have some sort of "offline browsing" feature? There's also a program called "net vampire" out there that was pretty good (and shareware).

If you're on *nix, check out wget.

Good luck!

Try URL

you can try Teleport Pro at http://cws.internet.com/agents-teleport.html , but you can only get the evaluation version for free. the licensed copy costs about $40.

Have you tried wget? It does things like that.

or.. Offline Explorer ( do a search on download.com )

It even comes with an embedded HTTP server so you can see all the sites that you downloaded and browse them... has lots of options such as download rate ( you can also set the download rate for 1 every 5-10 seconds, so it looks to the HTTP server on the other end as you were a real user)

I used this:

http://www.httrack.com/page3.php

http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm

Teleport Pro is another program that will do this.

Hey thanks all, apolgize for not getting back to you sooner.
I've been downloading willy nilly all over the web. My whole systems a mess but I actualy think this has been a good way to learn trouble-shooting skills. Well its about time to crash my puter again so I'm off.