This is a minor update to SiteSucker, but it is a program that I depend on, so I am posting it.
For the uninitiated, SiteSucker is a program that sucks everything (pages, images, etc.) out of a website and downloads it to your hard drive. I use it because I update my school web page at the beginning of each year, but I don’t want to lose all the information from before. I don’t usually go back and look at it much, but mainly save it as a backup of what happened the previous year, in case I lose some other record.
The updates are:
- Allowed users to view the download settings while downloading.
- Replaced wildcard support in paths settings with regular expressions.
- Removed “Get Files via Image Links” from the Download Option and added “Only Follow Image Links” option under the Advanced tab in the download settings.
- Added an option to save log files in ~/Library/Logs/SiteSucker.
- Added a Logs tab in the Download Settings window and reorganized the settings.
- Added scanning of the style attribute in all tags for URLs.
- Replaced URL parameters with a value in local file names.
- Deleted empty folders in the download folder when all downloads are paused.
- Modified the document format to improve performance when analyzing files.
- Fixed an issue where some files failed to download when a download was resumed.
- Fixed some issues with the Open File command.
Another really great application for this purpose is SiteCrawler. When I were into site downloaders a while ago, I found that SiteCrawler was able to download a lot of sites and files that SiteSucker failed on. However I guess that many of those issues are corrected in this version. But if you miss a feature in SiteSucker or feel like testing another option, try SiteCrawler @ http://lightheadsw.com/sitecrawler/
Ahhrg, stupid typo. When I *was*