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projectle

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Oct 11, 2005
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Is there an OSX Website Copier avaliable somewhere?
I have tried to locate one for the past month, however have been unable to locate one.

I am fine if it is a command line application, although would perfer something "menu-driven" rather than config-file driven.

Thank you for your assistance.
 
I use wget. It's command-line and I believe it comes with OS X.

To mirror a website, use the -m option like so:

Code:
$belvdr@osx.us.oracle.com /d1/u01> mkdir temp
$belvdr@osx.us.oracle.com /d1/u01/temp> cd temp
$belvdr@osx.us.oracle.com /d1/u01/temp> wget -m http://www.apple.com
 
Flying Llama said:
But is it even worth $5? Wouldn't be just as easy to type in "wget -m url"?
And how much space would something like Apple.com take? :eek:

I'll tell you when it finishes... :)

EDIT: 5 hours later, it's still working...
 
Just out of curiosity, how thorough is wget?

Does it follow every link and download every image? If so, yikes! I assume it won't find pages not linked to (even indirectly) from the front page.
 
Here's the site, rather than reproduce it here.

EDIT: After thinking about this, I don't see how any web site copying software would be able to find any pages that aren't linked to.
 
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