| Grab-a-site is a powerful tool that can copy all or part of on-line Web sites to your hard disk drive in one easy movement. The fastidious task of saving individual pages one-by-one becomes redundant, with the use of bots to automate this kind of action.
There are many situations in which it might be useful to keep a copy of a Web site. Professionals may want to study competitors' sites in detail, to index and mine their content, or to keep a record of published information that could change from one day to the next. Individuals who do not have regular access to the Internet may want to store favorite sites off-line, or to be able to read Web pages during a plane or train journey - while waiting for the day when 100% Wi-fi coverage will become a reality. Budding webmasters can always cadge design ideas that can be adapted to their own site ;-).
Grab-a-site responds neatly to these needs. Behind its simple interface is a powerful site downloader. Work is organized by projects, and one project can contain multiple pages or Web sites. Start by setting the filtering options, which include the type of file to be downloaded (HTML pages only, images, everything…), the maximum number of pages to download and the link depth to follow. Once these options have been configured, they will be used with all downloads in the project. Then downloading can begin with a single click. In just a few minutes, the site is reconstructed with an identical structure on your local machine.
Some people would perhaps like Grab-a-site to have an updating feature, that would automatically detect changes in downloaded pages and get the new version. But for a majority of users, its simplicity makes Grab-a-site a nice and effective tool to use. It is an easy way to gather large amounts of targeted content from the Web in the shortest possible time.
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