Best Tool for Making a Local Copy of a Website

radderfire · 7 Jun 2016 at 09:46

Hi Guys

When learning web design techniques, sometimes I want to make a full copy of a design to my local computer so that I can open the design in Dreamweaver. What is the best tool available to make a local copy easily?

Thanks

Biz.Kid09 · 7 Jun 2016 at 12:16

Do you mean you want to go on to www.???????.com and take a copy of their whole website?

As far as I am aware there is no possible way to do this, a lot of the .css and js and everything else which is crucial to the design will not be accessible to you, you can see the raw HTML but that's it.

Anything you want to do will likely have a YouTube or blog tutorial.

Craig321 · 7 Jun 2016 at 12:19

All the vital CSS and HTML will be available to you as it's necessary to load the page. Whether or not they've made it difficult to read by minifying or whatever is another thing, but the code will be there.

You can use httrack to rip a site. It won't pull any server side code of course, but will do HTML, JS and CSS absolutely fine.

radderfire · 7 Jun 2016 at 12:43

Craig321 said:
You can use httrack to rip a site. It won't pull any server side code of course, but will do HTML, JS and CSS absolutely fine.

Thanks, this is the kind of thing I was looking for.

antijoke · 7 Jun 2016 at 13:10

If sites are minifying their code you can also use the link below to, well, unminify it.

http://unminify.com/

Mynight · 7 Jun 2016 at 13:20

Massify is the technical term

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httrack is the one I've used before. "Ooo how do they do that" 5 minutes later "OMG why did they do it like that :eek:

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Biz.Kid09 · 7 Jun 2016 at 22:41

I stand corrected. Interesting stuff, will check it out myself!