SiteSucker Updated

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.

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