# Software to save a website

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-save-a-website/479111
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [December 29, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-save-a-website/479111 "2008-12-29T20:13:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-save-a-website/479111/1 "2008-12-29T20:13:25Z")

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I know I can do a quick file-save as, but I remember a bit of software that would go into a website and save the whole thing, a couple of pages in. In other words, point it at the homepage and it would check links to the rest of the website and save those pages too for you.

It was possibly something someone on the boards recommended, but I can’t quite remember. Any ideas?

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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: [December 29, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-save-a-website/479111/2 "2008-12-29T20:18:03Z")

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[wget](http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/) will do it, if you’re willing to do some minor commandline gymnastics.

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### Author: ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-save-a-website/479111/3 "2008-12-29T20:20:47Z")

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There are a number of them on [www.download.com](http://www.download.com). HTTRack copier is very powerful for this type of things and includes loads of options.

> **[HTTrack Website Copier - Free Software Offline Browser (GNU GPL)](http://www.httrack.com/)**
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> HTTrack is a free (GPL, libre/free software) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files...

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### Author: ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)
#### Post date: [December 29, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/software-to-save-a-website/479111/4 "2008-12-29T20:48:32Z")

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Thanks, I’ll check these tonight.