Download Bleg

by Jimmy Akin on April 27, 2005

in Internet

Folks,

I’m looking for a download manager that has the following characteristics:

  1. It works with Windows XP.
  2. It ain’t got spyware,
  3. It’s preferably free (or just cheap, if necessary),
  4. It will download a page and all the pages linked from that page in the same domain.

F’rinstance:

Suppose I want to download a particular page and all 1,564 links found on that page (there is such a page at present). What would I use?

Advice appreciated!

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Firefox also has an extension called "download them all" which you can use to download everything linked on that page or select from extension types.

Actually, if you've got broadband, I find a download manager is unnecessary when you use the DownThemAll extension. Tools/Extensions, Get New Extensions, install DownThemAll and try it out. It will download every blessed link on a page quite easily.

I use Free Download manager
http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/
and the FlashGot extension for Firefox.

Hopefully you are already using Firefox, if you are get the extention called FlashGot.
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/morei...
It still requires an external downloader and it will work with Fresh Download
http://www.freshdevices.com/

LeechGet is a great spyware-free download manager. It is free for personal use. It's parse URL feature will allow you to download sublinks on a site but I'm not sure how far down it goes because I haven't really used it that much.
http://www.leechget.net/en/

Jimmy, HTTrack should do what you want. I don't believe that it has spyware.
-Jesse
http://www.httrack.com/
From the site:
Q: Is there any 'spyware' or 'adware' in this program? Can you prove that there isn't any?
A: No ads (banners), and absolutely no 'spy' features inside the program.
The best proof is the software status: all sources are released, and everybody can check them. Open source is the best protection against privacy problems - HTTrack is an open source project, free of charge and free of any spy 'features'.

Jimmy, Internet Explorer has a Synchronize menu item under the Tools. You can use that to create an off-line copy of a website. This should give you what you need.

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