Message: 2 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:44:13 +0200 From: Frank Schaap <architext@fragment.nl> To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] archiving websites for later analysis Reply-To: air-l@aoir.org

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. -- Fragments Blog: http://fragment.nl/ Cyberculture Resources: http://fragment.nl/resources/

Apologies if someone already gave this solution, as I'm on digest. Internet Explorer 5 and above offers a number of ways to save sites, for purists who want all the HTML and code, and a Web Archive feature which will save a site and all its links to whatever link depth you specify. It will also preserve framesets, I believe. One of the drawbacks of the Acrobat method is that the PDF archive, altho stable, won't preserve framesets, or at least not in the last version I had. Chris -- Books just wanna be FREE! See what I mean at: http://bookcrossing.com/friend/Miasma