Copy Website to Hard Drive (Forums)

Le_Petit_Lapin · 16 May 2006 at 01:33

Is it possible to save a complete copy of a forum to hard drive, so it can be read while not online?

Just a forums that has a load of useful info on it, but I havent the time to sort through it yet, and will more than likely forget if I dont "rip" it soon. Its using phpBB.

earlyflash · 16 May 2006 at 06:45

Not easily, no.

Pyrosoft · 16 May 2006 at 12:47

Indeed it is possible

See here
It's only a 30 day trial, but if it's just the one site you want as a one off then it should do you well enough.

Is that what you're after?

Nismo · 16 May 2006 at 12:54

If you use Firefox, search for an extension called SpiderZilla.

Only used it breifly, but it might do what you require.

earlyflash · 17 May 2006 at 14:01

Pyrosoft said:
Indeed it is possible

See here
It's only a 30 day trial, but if it's just the one site you want as a one off then it should do you well enough.

Is that what you're after?

I don't think that this will be able to download a 'forum'. That would require navigating every link, and saving every entry as HTML. Not to mention the load that would put on the servers...

I mean, you *could* do that, but it would take up a huge gob of space, and wouldn't be easily searchable.

Orifice · 17 May 2006 at 15:06

If you tried doing it with these forums, your IP address would be blocked very quickly, wouldnt be surprised if other places were the same.

bledd · 17 May 2006 at 16:52

copy "http://*.*" "a:"

4tw!

VaderDSL · 17 May 2006 at 16:53

bledd. said:
copy "http://*.*" "a:"

4tw!

oooooh

cheers for that - there's a few sites I could do with reading offline

.........

bledd · 17 May 2006 at 22:59

yeah, and you can take it anywhere, but don't copy that floppy