HTTrack is an award winning open source web crawler and offline browser developed by Xavier Roche that allows you to download a website to your local computer. You can get all the directories with each and every file that includes html files, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site's relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the "mirrored" website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system. HTTrack has two GUI versions, one is called WinHTTrack for Windows users and WebHTTrack for Linux/UNIX based users. The both the versions are very similar with some minor differences.
HTTrack Features
HTTrack Features
- Versions available for Windows, Linux, Sun Solaris, and other Unix systems
- (Other platforms may soon be included)
- Multilingual Windows and Linux/Unix interface (English, Français, Castellano, Deutsch, Nederlands, Polski, Português, Italiano, Kréyòl Matinik, Magyar, Brazilian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Danish, Estonian, Swedish, Turkish, Macedonian, Japanese, Slovak, Czech, Ukrainian, Norwegian, Slovenian, Romanian, Greek)
- Free Software (GPL) (open source code given)
- Mirror one site, or more than one site together (with shared links)
- User-selectable recursion levels
- Quickly updates downloaded sites
- and resumes interrupted downloads (due to connection break, crash, etc.)
- Filter by file type, link location, structure depth, file size, site size, accepted or refused sites or filename (with advanced wild cards)..
- Timeout and minimum transfer rate manager to abandon slowest sites
- Wizard to specify which links must be loaded (accept/refuse: link, all domain, all directory)
- Multiple-connection mode (default: 4 connections) maximizes download speed
- HTTP compression (gzip..)
- Proxy support to maximize speed, with optional authentication
- Reget (resume) for partially transferred files (HTTP/1.1)
- File names with original structure kept or splitted mode (one html folder, and one image folder), dos 8-3 filenames option and user-defined structure
- Automatic switch for "Moved" errors
- HTML parsing and tag analysis, including javascript code/embedded HTML code
- Basic java and Flash parsing
- Integrated DNS cache
- Native https and ipv6 support
- Native mms:// media streaming capture support
- Optional log file with error-log and comments-log
- User-specified paths for mirror and log files
- Works as a command-line program, or through a shell for both private (capture) or professional (on-line web mirror) use
