How do I download a full website onto my computer for offline viewing?

October 14, 2018 9:00 AM

I am looking at a website and I need to download a copy on my computer so I can turn off the interview and view the full contents. The website has multiple pages - pictures and text. I have both a mac and a pc. What is the easiest way to do this?
posted by andoatnp to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

You can do this with site ripper software like HTTrack.
posted by belladonna at 9:21 AM on October 14, 2018 [4 favorites]

The easiest way will greatly depend on how the site's layed out. There's wget, HTTrack and a bunch of others.

Good overview of your options here.
posted by Bangaioh at 11:10 AM on October 14, 2018 [1 favorite]

I would open up the terminal on your Mac and try the example wget command from Bangaioh's second link, replacing example.com with your target site. If you're lucky wget is already installed and it will just work.
posted by XMLicious at 2:31 PM on October 14, 2018

sitesucker for mac osx used to do this well (5 yrs ago). No idea if it's good (or safe!) now.
posted by lalochezia at 11:55 AM on October 15, 2018