Comparison of software saving Web pages for offline use
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A number of proprietary software products are available for saving Web pages for later use offline. They vary in terms of the techniques used for saving, what types of content can be saved, the format and compression of the saved files, provision for working with already saved content, and in other ways.
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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 | ||||
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| wget | command line application | images and CSS (if -p option is used), but no client-side generated HTML content
| {{Yes}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}}, if | {{Open source|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 | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}}. Links all remade so open your locally stored pages for the site you download | {{Open source|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. | ||||||||
| Tenmax's Teleport | windows desktop application and scriptable tools for web crawling and archiving | multimedia (except streaming files), CSS, limited support for javascript events and cookies; shockwave/flash content is downloaded but not crawled
| {{dunno}} | {{dunno}} | {{Yes}} | {{Open source|Open}}. Standard HTML pages saved in a folder. Click on index.html to open home page | {{No}} | supports advanced filtering options and authentication | ||||||
| ScrapBook | Firefox extension | See note{{refn|group=ScrapBook|Saved content: Default:
Optionally:
| {{Yes}} | Easy | {{Yes}} IF those pages were saved in scrapbook | {{Proprietary}} catalog; regular HTML and content for each page | {{No}} | See note{{refn|group=ScrapBook|Extra features:
Known issues:
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| 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| Impossible | {{No}} | MAFF (=ZIP of regular HTML and web content) | Always | The Mozilla Archive Format add-on is no longer maintained since September 5, 2018.{{cite web |title=Documentation |url=http://maf.mozdev.org/documentation.html |website=mozdev.org |accessdate=3 August 2019}} |
| 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 source|Open}}; regular HTML for pages, regular zip file for catalog | {{Yes}} for catalog | |
| Archia's Web Page Archiver{{Cite web |url=http://www.archia.net/ |title=Archia: Web Page Archiver |access-date=2015-02-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150219113506/http://www.archia.net/ |archive-date=2015-02-19 |url-status=dead }} | E-mail based on-line service | See note{{refn|group=Archia|Saved content: 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 source|Open}} | {{Yes}} |
See also
Notes
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Video
To save video embedded on web sites (e.g. YouTube), there are video download extensions for Firefox (including Download Helper) and Chrome.