# Software for capturing website

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-capturing-website/450268>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 22, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-capturing-website/450268 "2008-05-22T17:30:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-capturing-website/450268/1 "2008-05-22T17:30:49Z")

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I’ve got a client who is running a dynamically-generated website using ASP, [ASP.NET](http://ASP.NET) and SQL Server DB running on Windows 2003. There is some static content, but the dynamically generated content is not cached on disk.

I need software that can walk the website periodically and screencapture each page and save it to a storage medium (cd, dvd, etc.). Does anyone know of anything that can do this?

I’d prefer to avoid shareware, but if you’ve got something good, by all means, recommend. The guys managing the site aren’t really tech savvy, so something simple to install and configure works best.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-capturing-website/450268/2 "2008-05-22T17:33:58Z")

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wget.

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**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-capturing-website/450268/3 "2008-05-22T17:37:28Z")

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Does your client want the visual look and feel for the site, or just the content?

If just the content, why not back up the data periodically?

But to answer your question, you could try [Teleport Pro](http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm) or [wget](http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) . No guarantees it works with dynamically generated content.

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**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-for-capturing-website/450268/4 "2008-05-22T17:41:37Z")

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[QUOTE=Duckster]  
Does your client want the visual look and feel for the site, or just the content?

If just the content, why not back up the data periodically?  
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We need the visual look and feel of the website as well.

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> But to answer your question, you could try [Teleport Pro](http://www.tenmax.com/teleport/pro/home.htm) or [wget](http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) . No guarantees it works with dynamically generated content.

I’ll take a look. Any other suggestions would be helpful. Thanks. And thanks **friedo**.