Downloading websites for viewing offline.

Discussion in 'Software' started by BigShot, Apr 13, 2007.

  1. BigShot

    BigShot Private First Class

    Hi folks.
    I'm trying to download a website for offline viewing on a Sony PSP.

    So far I've turned a few things (ebooks I have) into *.html files allowing me to use the standard PSP "www. browser" to read them, now I'm trying to get something else on there, but short of downloading over 1000 pages (basically a resource where every chapter is a separate html page, with an index file linking them all together) I'm not all that sure how I'd go about it.

    Essentially the site I'm trying to get is a frameset, 2 index files, and about 1200 content pages. I expect there's probably a style sheet in there and maybe one or two other bits.
    It is almost completely text based (I think there might be just one single image in the whole thing) so is very small despite the vast number of pages.

    I expect there is software available what will handle offline viewing on a PC, but what I'm looking for is a way to download a whole chunk of the site in one operation (preserving links between pages) so I can transfer the frameset, indexes and content to my PSP and view it there.

    Can anyone help me with this? Suggestions of software/methods?


    Thanks in advance.

    Big Shot



    (Oh, and if anyone reading this wonders why I've gone so quiet about my Linux install - far too busy to play with that at the moment. I'll be back on that project when work and travel stuff calms down a little)




    EDIT:
    Changed the wording of a point in the text that gave the wrong idea of what I'm trying to do. Not a whole site, but a whole chunk of one.
     
  2. BigShot

    BigShot Private First Class

    Case closed I suppose...
    Found a rather handy bit of software here...
    http://www.spadixbd.com/backstreet/index.htm

    I had to make a few attempts to get it to do what I wanted (my fault - didn't read the manual in the help section I got as far as reading
    "Here is a usual workflow when working with BackStreet Browser:
    1. You run BackStreet Browser and create a new project.".......
    and it was trial and error from that point onwards) but once I figured it out it was all smooth sailing.

    I've since had another look and it seems there's quite a bit of software for this job, I've no idea how BackStreet Browser shapes up against the others, but it is free and did what I wanted, so I don't suppose it matters. I'll check others if I come to do this again sometime.

    Maybe this will help someone trying to do something similar.

    Thanks for reading and I hope I didn't waste anyone's time looking for an answer before seeing this follow-up post.

    Big Shot
     
  3. Colemanguy

    Colemanguy MajorGeek

    for the record look up a tool native to linux and downloadable on windows, called wget.
     
  4. BigShot

    BigShot Private First Class

    I take it that's a similar kind of tool?
    I'll take a look when I get a chance (away for a couple of days) and see how it compares.
    Thanks. :)
     

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