Saving an entire website or just a few web pages on your computer can be useful for those who have a limited connection over time or for those who want to prepare something to read on the laptop during a transfer by train or plane.
I don't think it will happen often, among other things the usefulness of this article can be limited by the presence of feeds that can be saved on the PC using a program such as FeedDemon or with Microsoft Outlook using plugins such as NetNewWire or NewsFire or NewsGator (to try them, click on the feed figure on the right).
However, the feeds can be partial and not complete, and then if a site disappears into thin air, you can get hurt.
The piece, therefore, we must put it even if you want to read a news site or a blog like this.
The goal is therefore to save a site to browse the web pages to read them offline, calmly and without internet connection, directly from the computer.
Making a browser like Internet Explorer, " File -> Save As ", is a very impractical solution that is only needed if you want to make a copy on the fly of a single page and not a group of or the whole site.
To make a copy of an entire site or, better, of the pages that may interest you, so that they are saved on your computer and organized according to the directory structure and make it navigable, you can use the BlackStreet Browser program that is suitable for the purpose.
Once the browser is installed, connected to the internet, you must type, going to File -> New, the URL of the site to be saved, also deciding:
- Where to save it on the computer;
- Whether to copy only the pages that come from the server hosting the site or to save the sites linked by the same;
- The depth of links to check and save, that is, if you set 3, you save the pages connected to the first, those connected to this and the links to the third level;
- If not save the pages larger than a certain data size, for example, if more than 200 Kbytes;
- Whether to copy the pages following the site structure or whether to copy them all on the PC.
Leaving all the settings as they are by default, the page is copied in full and in the same way as you see it online and to look at it, just click on one of them, for example on the home page, and then navigate it as you normally would.
For completeness of information, I only mention that a website is made up of several structured files like a directory with folders, a bit like Windows does.
This structure is visible by seeing the internet addresses and noticing the / in the middle.
For example www.sito.net is the home page, as if it were C: / on Windows, www.sito.net/2009/pippo.html is a page that is inside the 2009 folder.
Modern websites have a directory structure with understandable names that generally refer to written content, older and unoptimized websites instead have incomprehensible names with numbers and letters that seem random.
But in this post we are not very interested in this fact and we who do not understand anything of these technical subtleties, we just want to save a website, not to copy its code or structure, but to consult it and browse offline.
In case you want something more as a programmer, I can report HttTrack which describes itself as an "offline browser" or as a "website copier".
The program is to be installed and once opened, just write the url of the site you want to copy and it will be taken in full with the html code, files and images behind it .
READ ALSO: Open and read offline websites without connection on PC, tablet and mobile phones .
I don't think it will happen often, among other things the usefulness of this article can be limited by the presence of feeds that can be saved on the PC using a program such as FeedDemon or with Microsoft Outlook using plugins such as NetNewWire or NewsFire or NewsGator (to try them, click on the feed figure on the right).
However, the feeds can be partial and not complete, and then if a site disappears into thin air, you can get hurt.
The piece, therefore, we must put it even if you want to read a news site or a blog like this.
The goal is therefore to save a site to browse the web pages to read them offline, calmly and without internet connection, directly from the computer.
Making a browser like Internet Explorer, " File -> Save As ", is a very impractical solution that is only needed if you want to make a copy on the fly of a single page and not a group of or the whole site.
To make a copy of an entire site or, better, of the pages that may interest you, so that they are saved on your computer and organized according to the directory structure and make it navigable, you can use the BlackStreet Browser program that is suitable for the purpose. Once the browser is installed, connected to the internet, you must type, going to File -> New, the URL of the site to be saved, also deciding:
- Where to save it on the computer;
- Whether to copy only the pages that come from the server hosting the site or to save the sites linked by the same;
- The depth of links to check and save, that is, if you set 3, you save the pages connected to the first, those connected to this and the links to the third level;
- If not save the pages larger than a certain data size, for example, if more than 200 Kbytes;
- Whether to copy the pages following the site structure or whether to copy them all on the PC.
Leaving all the settings as they are by default, the page is copied in full and in the same way as you see it online and to look at it, just click on one of them, for example on the home page, and then navigate it as you normally would.
For completeness of information, I only mention that a website is made up of several structured files like a directory with folders, a bit like Windows does.
This structure is visible by seeing the internet addresses and noticing the / in the middle.
For example www.sito.net is the home page, as if it were C: / on Windows, www.sito.net/2009/pippo.html is a page that is inside the 2009 folder.
Modern websites have a directory structure with understandable names that generally refer to written content, older and unoptimized websites instead have incomprehensible names with numbers and letters that seem random.
But in this post we are not very interested in this fact and we who do not understand anything of these technical subtleties, we just want to save a website, not to copy its code or structure, but to consult it and browse offline.
In case you want something more as a programmer, I can report HttTrack which describes itself as an "offline browser" or as a "website copier".
The program is to be installed and once opened, just write the url of the site you want to copy and it will be taken in full with the html code, files and images behind it .
READ ALSO: Open and read offline websites without connection on PC, tablet and mobile phones .
