Software to Suck Up a Website?

Before Making an Offer to Purchase

[swoop]

I'm interested in purchasing a website, but before making an offer I'd like to download a copy of the site. Can someone recommend software to do this efficiently?

Thank you.

[victor]

wget

But bear in mind that many websites will ban such software if it hits the site too hard. Make sure you can pace he requests.

[giggle]

Surely it can't get access to server side stuff like ASP, if it could they would pick up your database connection strings and be able to hack your database...say it isn't so...

[victor]

Good point.

What you see is all you get.

[Easy_Coder]

say it isn't so...

It isn't so... A crawler is basically going to snatch up the static output. You'd have to have security credentials to get at the 'other' side.

swoop, just search for some crawler software that follows links. I think that type of functionality is built right into good ole Front Page if you point it at the site. You might want to try monkeying around with that.

[geoman]

HTTrack does it easily and quickly. I just used it to download an entire copy of a client's website, they were changing webmasters. The site was over 27mb. It's freeware, no nags whatsoever. Get it here:

[httrack.com...]

[Tropical Island]

If you have a copy of MS FrontPage it will do the same thing.

I have used it to download new client's websites that I am going to work on. I wouldn't worry too much about load - you are only taking one copy of each page - it would be just like browsing.

[Nikke]

You can even do it with PDF Maker, which is kind of fun for offline browsing.