How to read a whole site offline easily?
The simple answer is downloading pages. If the site have 3-4 page then this solution is interesting but think a site like Piyada’s World which have 500 article, means 500 page. So what you do?
This following solution is specially helpful for people traveling, for students and for time fixed broadband user.
BackStreet Browser is wonderful solution for viewing any site offline. It downloaded whole site as per your specified link depth. So you can view a whole website right from your machine without any internet connection. This offline browser have the ability to download whole site faster than your manual save. You can resume your download session, this feature specially helpful for dial up user.
By making multiple simultaneous server requests, BackStreet Browser can quickly download entire website or part of a site including HTML, graphics, Java Applets, sound and other user definable files, and saves all the files in your hard drive, either in their native format, or as a compressed ZIP file and view offline. The quick-view browser window also supports browsing zipped website, so that you don’t need to unzip the files to view.
Major Features:
- High-speed, multi-threading website download.
- Resume feature to pick up a session where left off.
- Update feature to download new or modified files.
- Built-in file viewer in onboard browser window to view files offline.
- Print/Preview downloaded files within same offline browser window.
- Built-in Zip/Unzip facility for downloaded websites.
- Option of duplicating the original directory structure of a site.
- Filters files by URL, size, type, date modified, text.
- User-selectable recursion levels, retrieval threads, timeout and proxy support.
- Accesses password-protected sites.
My personal favorite is Offline Explorer. Every year the need for this type of program decreases as people get more connectivity.
You are right Ikram. The internet connectivity cost decreasing every now and then. So there is few occasion when people are not connected with internet. Wireless broadband also give the pleasure of surfing when you are traveling.
This is a terrible idea. It uses up a frightening amount of bandwidth, and you’re more likely to bring down the website than download it. Hitting someone else’s server with an offline browser is irresponsible. I’ve had my site “attacked” by offline browsers trying to download the whole site. They overload the web host until their IP is blocked.
Every good thing have some side effect buddy and usually very few people use this service so it’s ok I think JP.