Comparison of software saving Web pages for offline use
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| Name | Technology | Completeness of saved content | Support for collections | Ease of adding to existing collections | Navigable between saved pages in offline | Format of saved files; open/proprietary | Compression | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wget | command line application | images and CSS (if -p option is used), but no client-side generated HTML content |
Yes | ? | Yes, if -k option is used |
Open (HTML or WARC) | Yes, if WARC files are used | |
| HTtrack | command line application has WinHTTrack for Windows and WebHTTrack for Linux/BSD/Unix GUI front-ends | ? | ? | ? | Yes. Links all remade so open your locally stored pages for the site you download | Open. Standard HTML pages saved in a folder. Click on index.html to open home page | No | Many options to let you refine what you save. |
| Scrapbook | Firefox extension | Default:
Optionally:
|
Yes | Easy | Yes IF those pages were saved in scrapbook | Proprietary catalog; regular HTML and content for each page | No |
Extra features:
See also "Detailed notes" section below. |
| Mozilla Archive Format | Firefox extension | Images, CSS and other static content; clientside-generated HTML content saved fine | Yes | Impossible | No | MAFF (=ZIP of regular HTML and web content) | Always | |
| Read Later Fast | Google Chrome extension | Stylesheets are saved incompletely or not at all | No | N/A | No | Proprietary; restricted to Google Chrome profile location | No | |
| PageArchiver | Google Chrome extension | Video and audio files (via Flash or HTML5) are not saved | Yes | Yes (import/export features) | No | Open; regular HTML for pages, regular zip file for catalog | Yes for catalog | |
| Archia's Web Page Archiver | E-mail based on-line service | Images, CSS and other static content, sound (MP3, WAV, RAM, WMA), video (MPG, AVI, MOV, WMV), archives (ZIP, LZH, RAR, JAR, XPI), custom document extensions (e.g. PDF) | No | No | No | Open | Yes |
Details on specific software
Scrapbook
Known issues:
- saved pages embedding TED.com presentations (incl. pages on TED.com) cannot be played even when online
- selecting a piece of page will save only selected piece—inconvenient when you change page title with a quote from the page
Video
To save video embedded on web sites (e.g. YouTube), Download Helper Firefox extension can be used, as well as others for Firefox as well as Chrome.
See also
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