How can I make a map of someone else's website?

July 2, 2011 3:45 PM

How can I make a 'map' or 'tree' of all the pages on a particular website and how they link together?

Specifically, I'm besotted with Justin Hall's site before around 2005. While I enjoy clicking random links and going down the rabbit hole, I want a more top-down view so I can get a better sense of what there is to find. (Anyone who's seen the site will know that it was built piecemeal and so has no central structure, just lots of different bits bolted on.)

How do I do this? It's all been saved by the Wayback Machine, but I can't seem to find the right piece of software that can parse the site's structure and show me, graphically, how everything fits together.

Thanks!

posted by henryaj to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

What you want is a "graphical sitemap generator". I haven't done this personally, but there seem to be several choices as far as software goes.
posted by anaelith at 4:05 PM on July 2, 2011

Is Visio what you are thinking of?
posted by jadepearl at 7:23 PM on July 2, 2011

Dreamweaver
posted by humboldt32 at 10:46 PM on July 2, 2011