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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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...

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Ben

Thanks a lot tdungan, would you believe I didn't know you could do that,

January 30 2006 at 8:02 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

anon

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

January 27 2006 at 6:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

William Henney

Hmm, how do I type in something that looks like a web address without the posting software trying to convert it to a link?

January 27 2006 at 12:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

William Henney

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

January 27 2006 at 12:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

PooPsTech

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.

January 27 2006 at 9:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

holophile

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.

January 27 2006 at 6:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

glad

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.

January 27 2006 at 6:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben

Forgive my ignorance but what do I need to be able to save as PDF? is that in Safari?

January 27 2006 at 4:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Roger Crapton

wget y0. use it or pose.

January 26 2006 at 11:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Schmeid

An easy work-around to downloading Quicktime movies?

I think I'll try it.

January 26 2006 at 10:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply