

HTTrack is more known than WebCopy, and is arguably better because it's open-source and available on platforms other than Windows. Open the index.html (or sometimes index.htm) in your browser of choice to start browsing. To view the website offline, open File Explorer and navigate to the save folder you designated. Related: Best Apps to Save Articles for Offline Readingīut most important is the Sitemap, which shows the full directory structure of the website as discovered by WebCopy. The Errors tab shows any problems that may have occurred, and the Skipped tab shows files that weren't downloaded. Once the copying is done, you can use the Results tab to see the status of each individual page and/or media file.

Navigate to File > Save As… to save the project.Ĭlick Copy in the toolbar to start the process.

Play around with Project > Rules… ( learn more about WebCopy Rules). Navigate to File > New to create a new project.Ĭhange the Save folder field to where you want the site saved. How to Download an Entire Website With WebCopy One project can copy many websites, so use them with an organized plan (e.g., a "Tech" project for copying tech sites). This makes it easy to re-download many sites whenever you want, each one in the same exact way every time. The interesting thing about WebCopy is you can set up multiple projects that each have their own settings and configurations. Then you can use the configuration options to decide which parts to download offline. As it finds pages, it recursively looks for more links, pages, and media until the whole website is discovered. WebCopy by Cyotek takes a website URL and scans it for links, pages, and media.
