Download a website

Stretch · 10 Aug 2008 at 20:32

How can I download an entire website for offline viewing without installing additional software? The site is only approx 20 pages.

I'm sure you used to be able to do it using the "Make available offline" option in IE, but this option appears to be missing in IE7 :confused:

BigglesPiP · 10 Aug 2008 at 21:45

What is the site?

If there is even a little bit of PHP then you can't do it, you never get access to the php pages and the mySQL database.

Inquisitor · 10 Aug 2008 at 21:54

There are tools out there that can crawl through a website and download all the things they find, but I don't know any of hand. You could just manually save each page.

Una · 10 Aug 2008 at 23:00

wget -m should do it.

Stretch · 10 Aug 2008 at 23:30

BigglesPiP said:
What is the site?

If there is even a little bit of PHP then you can't do it, you never get access to the php pages and the mySQL database.

I wanted to keep this simple, but obviously some people like to do things the hard way.

There's no server side scripting. The site is my girlfriend’s company departmental intranet. It's maintained by non-technical people who upload simple html files that load into iframes, so the navigation etc and much of the rest of the site is not available to them. She needs to send a copy of the entire site over to an office in the states that don't have lan or vpn access.

Inquisitor said:
There are tools out there that can crawl through a website and download all the things they find, but I don't know any of hand. You could just manually save each page.

She doesn’t have local administrator rights and therefore can't use any software not already installed on the machine. Why have MS removed the ability to browse a site offline?

Una said:
wget -m should do it.

Good thinking. I'll give it a go.

JoeWed · 11 Aug 2008 at 10:24

As an alternative to wget you could use the portable version of WinHTTrack - no admin rights required.

Craig321 · 11 Aug 2008 at 10:32

BigglesPiP said:
What is the site?

If there is even a little bit of PHP then you can't do it, you never get access to the php pages and the mySQL database.

He can if he doesn't want live content. If he just wants the content that was shown at the time then it'll work perfectly.

wget -m as suggested above would be my choice