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SiteSucker pulls web pages onto your drive
Yeah, I have grown accustomed to saving web pages as PDF's.
Between Spotlight support (probably the only time I use it really) and just the cool factor of having a mostly-universal
format for pages of info to carry around, the Save As PDF feature is terrific. However, the limits are you can't get the
actual HTML, CSS, images, or other media files that actually make the site. And if you're like me, completely unafraid
to reverse-engineer some poor web designer's brilliant CSS and use it yourself, that PDF save won't get you there. So
SiteSucker comes to my rescue.SiteSucker is a very small app (less than 1 MB), and does one thing terrifically well: save all files and pages off a site. I would complain the interface takes some effort, but it doesn't really. The icons are confusing, but no more so than Plucker, which I use to pull pages onto my WristPDA. A few clicks, and SiteSucker will save all the related files for a URL into a folder on your computer. I got all the HTML, CSS, XML, images, SWF's, even the favicon file. It will not follow JavaScripted links, or many other files that coders might obfuscate for protection purposes. But there is a OS 9 version! The few sites I tried did pretty well, but I didn't try more dynamic sites like Amazon. For simple web deconstruction and just fooling around, this seems like a good app. It's donationware.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Reid Bode said 10:46PM on 1-26-2006
An easy work-around to downloading Quicktime movies?
I think I'll try it.
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Roger Crapton said 11:33PM on 1-26-2006
wget y0. use it or pose.
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Ben said 4:22AM on 1-27-2006
Forgive my ignorance but what do I need to be able to save as PDF? is that in Safari?
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glad said 6:20AM on 1-27-2006
sitesucker is great and I've been using it for about 2 years or more, it's the best out there.
#3 all you need to do to create a PDF of a page is attempt to print and when the print dialogue box appears on the bottom left you should see PDF claick that and bingo your pdf is created and all you have to do is decide where to put it.
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tdungan said 6:23AM on 1-27-2006
Ben, it's built-in across the OS. Victor's refering to the "Save as PDF" feature built into the Print dialog box. I use it everytime I'm supposed to print a webpage confirmation since I don't have a printer at home but would still like to have a copy.
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PooPsTech said 9:23AM on 1-27-2006
Hi there,
I was looking for a WebGrabber. This site sucker was exactly what I was looking for for the Mac. I hae them on thje PC side, b ut not on the Mac. Now I do. Keep these little reviews going. Very usful to the rest of us.
PooPs Tech
Sr. Software Eng.
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William Henney said 12:27PM on 1-27-2006
For those puzzled by Roger's cryptic comment, wget is a venerable and excellent command-line download tool, that works on pretty well all OSs. Among its many other uses, it seems to cover the functionality of this SiteSucker thing with something like
wget --page-requisites --convert-links http://x.y/page
It is easiest installed via fink
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William Henney said 12:32PM on 1-27-2006
Hmm, how do I type in something that looks like a web address without the posting software trying to convert it to a link?
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C Kizer said 6:48PM on 1-27-2006
Uh this application sucks. What we need is an application that downloads the images listed in the CSS files too.
Use DeepVacuum for OSX, it's based on WGET, has a nice interface and is VASTLY SUPERIOR
http://www.hexcat.com/deepvacuum/index.html
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Ben said 8:02AM on 1-30-2006
Thanks a lot tdungan, would you believe I didn't know you could do that,
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