similar tools have been around for ages, but I guess it depends to a great extent on your platform. another possibility for windows is httrack. I used to use that for some time, pretty simple saves a complete local copy. I usually suggest to people on campus adobe acrobat 4.0+'s webcapture facility, which does similar things to what Ulla describes below. It works on windows and apple products. for unixlike systems apple osx/linux/bsd etc. there are a wide variety of tools that can do just about anything one can imagine, from the simplest tools like wget and mirror.pl that just make copies to systems that store the material in databases that can nearly anything one desires. To start, I'd suggest wget though the wget -m command will mirror the precise url you give it to whatever directory you want combined with a shell script and cron you can take a period of snapshots of the website at times when the sites are less likely to have traffic and have them for a historical comparison or similar minded study. you could do just about anything in the end though. On Saturday, March 9, 2002, at 08:32 PM, Bunz, Ulla K wrote:
Nicky, For my dissertation research I used WebCopier, and was quite pleased with it. You can download it for free at www.maximumsoft.com, and you get a trial period of a month or so. After that, some of the functions cease working. I never bought it, just downloaded what I needed within that time. But even if you have to buy it, it's very cheap. If I remember correctly it costs less than $50. Someone else in our department bought it based on my recommendation and is happy with it. jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com