Re: Download website

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You are correct. All we really want is the content so we can get a
jumpstart on updating the text and images. Layout etc dose not matter
right now


First....if the company doesn't have at least
one copy of the site backed up offline then
there's something very wrong.

But that aside....

Why not just load a page in a browser and
save it with all associated files? If you need
to work on editing text and updating images
then you probably don't need many pages to
get started. And downloading it that way
would allow you to keep the CSS and image
files in a neat package with the page. As Ralph
said, you can't really download the site files anyway.

If you really need to download more you can
use a "download helper" like HTTrack, as Nobody
said. There's not much point in writing something
like that. But there are caveats, as Ralph pointed
out. A lot of sites compile a page server-side.
If you're just downloading pages then you may
not be getting anything even close to the actual
website files. Also, some sites may block things
like HTTrack. (On my own site I try to block all
"helpers" and "scrapers", and I serve different pages
to IE and non-IE. Those are two examples of
problems you might run into.)

I once tried HTTrack and found that it seemed
to fail more often than not. Maybe that's because a
lot of sites block it, or maybe it's related to the lack
of actual webpage files on sites that are building pages
from a database as they're requested. I'm not sure.


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