[Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis

merlyna lim merlyn at bdg.centrin.net.id
Thu Sep 26 06:52:41 PDT 2002


I use 'Teleport Pro' which can download until 'x' links away from the starting address, and can include both internal and external links.

merlyna lim

scot research group, bandung - indonesia
u.twente, enschede - netherlands


>Frank,
>
>I use adobe acrobat. If you have the writing feature, not the free reading
>feature, you can save webpages exactly as they are, including their
>directories, and you can decide exactly how many links deep. Endnote also
>provides this feature, with detailed cataloging available so you can recall
>them later.
>
>Jillana Enteen
>jillana at rcnchicago.com
>http://www.rcnchicago.com/~jillana
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Frank Schaap" <architext at fragment.nl>
>To: <air-l at aoir.org>
>Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 7:44 AM
>Subject: [Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis
>
>
>> I know this has been discussed here before, but I can't seem to find that
>> discussion anymore.
>>
>> I'm analysing a relatively limited number of homepages and I'm looking for
>a
>> way to archive them to be able to later go back to the state I found them
>in
>> for analysis purposes.
>>
>> Using the "save as" function of for instance IE isn't sufficient. Since
>> personal homepages aren't all that big usually, I want to archive the
>whole
>> site including underlying pages.
>>
>> I have found WebCopier <http://www.maximumsoft.com/> and that seems to
>work
>> quite okay, but it still has some issues, for instance with iframes. It
>also
>> converts the directory structure of the site and sometimes it's important
>to
>> see how someone structures their site.
>>
>> So, in other words, does anyone have any other recommendations? Dept. and
>IT
>> policies make that I'm looking for something that I can run locally on my
>> own machine...
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Frank.
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Merlyna Lim
Research Fellow
SCoT Research Group
UTwente - ITB





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