7 Ways to Copy a Website for Free 🆓
▶️The easiest way to save a site: "Ctrl+S" is a command in the browser that saves the current page. Fast, without third-party services, but with a high probability of losing part of the site (dynamic elements, script, forms) - more suitable for copying page content.
If you need to copy a working one-page site, it is better to turn to special services that, in addition to HTML, copy CSS, JavaScript, all images, animations, links and forms.
Moreover, some of them are completely free.
Web2zip
Web2zip – a free online service for downloading websites with a simple interface. We enter the required website URL, click copy and get the website in an archive with the ability to preview online.
The service copies HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images and fonts.
Saveweb2zip
Saveweb2zip – an online service with a free option to download a website, preserving HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images and fonts. For an additional fee, you can order form customization and other issues.
When downloading, there is an option to automatically rename file names and copy the mobile version of the site.
CopySite
CopySite – an online service with a paid subscription, but with broader functionality. When downloading, it is possible to use a proxy, replace words, links, automatically delete tags, metric counters and format the code.
Cost: 300 rubles/month, 200 rubles/week, 75 rubles/day. Use currency converter to find out the us dollar values.
Web ScrapBook
Web ScrapBook – a free browser extension that allows you to download the necessary pages of a site without leaving the landing page.
The service has many customization options that allow you to work with multimedia files and scripts: download, cut, replace, skip.
Httrack
Httrack – free local service, needs to be installed on your computer to work. It copes with the task perfectly, the main advantage is that you can download several sites at the same time (download URLs as a list), always ready to work (does not depend on the functionality of online services), less convenient than the solutions above.
The manual can be found here :https://www.httrack.com/html/index.html
Cyotek WebCopy
Cyotek WebCopy – one of the services of Cyotek company, requires installation, but is absolutely free. Copies content, as well as styles, but loses JavaScript.
Perfect for parsing website content and copying simple websites.
wget
wget is a console utility that allows you to copy websites without a graphical interface, using a command like "wget -r -k -l 7 -p -E -nc http:/your.site/"
The parameters are responsible for:
-r - specifies that you need to follow the links on the site to download all subdirectories and all files in the subdirectories.
-k - converts all links in downloaded files so that they can be followed on the local computer in offline mode.
-p - specifies that all files required to display pages (images, css, etc.) should be downloaded.
-l - defines the maximum nesting depth of pages to download. Usually, sites have pages with a high degree of nesting, and to prevent wget from starting to "dig in" while downloading pages, you can use this parameter.
-E - add the .html extension to downloaded files.
-nc - specifies that existing files will not be overwritten - for example, when continuing a previously interrupted site download.
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