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For all of the usefulness of the Internet, there are times when you want or need to be able to browse a website offline - either because a client doesn't have broadband, or you want to transport the entire site on a flash drive. You may think this is an impossible dream, until you hear about today's discount software promotion, A1 Website Download 4.x!

A1 Website Download 4.x lets you download entire websites to local storage, enabling you to browse them offline. With A1 Website Download 4.x, you can experience the speed of browsing a website at broadband speeds even if you're using a dial-up connection, because it won't be running on the Internet! Researchers and travelers will love the ability to view websites anytime, anywhere, without relying on the presence of an Internet connection.

Instead of grabbing everything under the sun, A1 Website Download 4.x lets you customize your experience with filters that let you specify which files and pages you want to download and which you want to leave behind. If you have a slew of sites that you want to grab for offline enjoyment, you can even use A1 Website Download 4.x to automate the download of websites at a specific time (like when you're sleeping!).

Please note folks, it may take up to a few hours for some of you to receive the email containing your license file (depending on what time you purchase). The registration process is semi-automated and there's a chance the developer will be momentarily unavailable. Thanks for understanding!

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Danny Is that kind of like WebCopier of Maximumsoft.com?

Feb 13 at 9:35pm

Michael R. Is there a way to postprocess the download offline-site. E.g. if I find out, that a certain link (and all the files which are linked from there) I downloaded is not necessary in my offline-website-copy, can I
(i) remove this link and all the files
(ii) have an option what would happen, if the user clicks on the link (e.g. show a message or make this link unclickable)
(iii) mark that link for not getting downloaded next time

Perhaps it would be nice to be able to define a way, so the user could decide in form of a script (or DLL), if a certain page should be included in the download. So A1WebsiteDownload could call this script right before downloading it, passing relevant information about it (like the exact webaddress, the nesting, ...) and would get a boolean return-value and this way knows, if this site should be downloaded (and being followed one nesting deeper). Supporing a DLL-usage, would probably not be so much effort to implement, but would be of great value (for the users, which want and are able to use it).

Some questions about the 'image-downloader':
Sometimes you have a webpage with a lot of thumbnails, which can be clicked on and they would open a picture, video, ... in it's full size. I read this image-downloader-ability can handle to download these files.
Is it possible to store all files from different webpages in a single directory, but instead saving the files under their original-name (which would result in a really confusing mixed collection of files), save them in an ordered way, e.g. with preceding indices for each file.
E.g. webpage 1 has thumbnails refering to image pic1.jpg, pic2.jpg and webpage 2 has thumbnails refering to pic0.jpg and pic1.jpg. So if I want A1WebsiteDownload to save all referred image-files from these two websites it would be nice if I could define some options, so they could be saved as 001_001_pic1.jpg, 001_002_pic2.jpg and 002_001_pic0.jpg, 002_002_pic1.jpg.

Feb 13 at 10:46pm

Thomas Schulz @Danny Thys: A1 Website Download is a web/site/files copier/grabber/downloader program.

@Michael R:
If you switch off "Simplified easy mode" you get access to "output filters" (essentially which files are stored to disk) and "analysis filters" (essentially which pages get analyzed/crawled for new links) . In A1WD the process of excluding type/exact/pattern/level of URLs (or limiting analysis and/or output to sections) is done through those. The scan presets available are quick ways of configuring these.

If after a website download finished you want to remove some files (and you are not happy removing them in e.g. Windows explorer) you will have to rescan, e.g. using revised filters as described above. I *will* think about deleting files on disk from within the A1WD user interface (and maybe also removing links), but that is not currently available.

A1 Website Download can be configured to only download images or any other kind of file. (The preset uses the filtering options to achieve this.) The images will be placed in the directory which they come from. See this help page which includes a screenshot showing it:
http://www.microsystools....ownloader/

Microsys - Feb 14 at 2:35am

Danny It would not be worth considering to possibly get a free Lifetime upgrades license to enter?

Feb 14 at 11:46am

Thomas Schulz @Danny Thys: I am sorry, but no :( However, the upgrade policy is already better than what described here at BDJ :) Your 4.x license is good forever (I will try keep the last/latest version 4.x available for download, but you should of course also download the releases yourself incase of doomsday or whatever). Added to that, you will be eligible to all 5.x releases incase 5.0 is released within one year of your purchase.

Microsys - Feb 14 at 3:02pm

Danny @Thomas Schulz,

Okay, thank you for your reply.

Still have a question: what does or what would "A1" say?

Feb 14 at 9:53pm

Thomas Schulz Danny Thys: Well, back when I started the program series (like 2005/2006) I did my best at brainstorming names. After I found out that "A1" meant "first class", I went with that :)
http://dictionary.referen.../browse/a1

Microsys - Feb 15 at 1:02am

Danny So with this ' A1 Website download ' can I entire website to the bottom layer and offline surfing?

Feb 16 at 1:06am

Thomas Schulz Danny Thys: Yes, you can download *complete* websites. (Or sections using filters.) You can then browse/surf the downloaded sites afterwards. A1WD is able to handle most websites without any problems (as it can also handle a good amount of Javascript), but if you have problems, I will be around help :) For complex cases, be sure to *also* email support[at]microsystools.com your project file.

Microsys - Feb 16 at 1:51am

DrTeeth How does this product compare with HTTrack which is free? HTTrack is okay, but a faster and more sophisticated program would be very tempting. I shall try the trial, but would find the info helpful.

It would be helpful to have dates in the history of when versions were released - frequent updates are a big plus.

As the program is licenced per user, can I install it on ALL my PCs?

Tnx,

DrT

Feb 16 at 4:34am

Petr These days, most web sites that I'm interested in have been deployed using a CMS system such as WordPress, Drupal or Joomla. Such CMS systems are database driven and dynamic, not simple static html files.

Does your software download CMS based web sites for off-line viewing? If 'yes', how will it enable me to view off-line?

What are the limitations of your software? What kind of web content will not be downloaded successfully (for off-line viewing)?

Do embedded videos and flash content get downloaded? Are these viewable off-line?

Thanks

Feb 16 at 5:06am

Thomas Schulz DrTeeth: If you want sophisticated, switch off "easy mode" :) You can increase the speed times 10-20 compared to default settings assuming the server can handle it. You can find history log here: http://www.microsystools....istory.php

Microsys - Feb 16 at 8:32am

Thomas Schulz Petr:
The only thing that matters is what a site outputs to the crawler/browser, and that is always HTML/CSS/Javascript etc. Website platform/database/dynamic etc. does not matter. For more information, see:
http://www.microsystools....-platform/

Regarding Joomla, you may want to use the Joomla preset since many Joomla installations have a plugin installed that throttle unknown crawlers. See:
http://www.microsystools....a-website/

There is also a WordPress preset for optimizing the download and leave out duplicate URLs. (Bu that is entirely voluntarily. WordPress websites generally download very well without any problems at all.)

If you are wondering what A1WD does with "?" query URLs: They are renamed when saved to disk since Windows does not allow "?" in file names. However, as all links are corrected when downloading websites, the whole website continues to work fully when on disk.

If you are wondering about Javascript: A1WD can handle much Javascript. (It is not perfect, but it is quite good at fixing file/URL references inside Javascript.) If a site uses AJAX (minority) where Javascript is used to dynamicly contact a server and change content "in-page" (i.e. no page reload) that does pose a problem. (But that is the same for all crawlers.)

If you are wondering about Flash. You can enable support for that as well, so A1WD can fetch/read links in most Flash files. (However, it can not recompile Flash files and fix URL references in the flash files themselves.) See: http://www.microsystools....ites-tool/

Streamed videos are a problem. Generally, complete video files are not a problem. (Use presets to include various file types or switch off easy mode to configure it in detail.)

Normally you do not have to do any configuration to download websites and have them work offline. (You may sometimes encounter e.g. Windows Internet Explorer operate under another harder security model when viewing files on local disk, so you may want to try FireFox if you experience that.) Should you encounter problems, the website scan "Presets" are usually all that is necessary to solve problems / optimize the website download.

Microsys - Feb 16 at 8:44am

DrTeeth @ Thomas

I found the history log, that is how I know it does not have any dates to say when each version was released ;-).

Could you answer my licensing question above please, "As the program is licenced per user, can I install it on ALL my PCs"?

Feb 16 at 9:03am

Thomas Schulz DrTeeth: Hmmm, I recalled it as there were dates for version 1.0.0, 2.0.0, 3.0.0 and 4.0.0. I will look into that :) However, a rough estimate is about one-two updates every month. (Example: There has been 18 4.x releases since 4.0.0 was released 8th March, 2012)

You can install it on all your PCs. The license is per user of the software. You can also check this help page: http://www.microsystools....m-license/

Microsys - Feb 16 at 9:13am

DrTeeth @ Thomas

Many thanks. Nice to see frequent updates.

DrT

Feb 16 at 11:40am

Michael R.
Thanks for the (partially) answered questions of mine...

I *will* think about deleting files on disk from within the A1WD user interface (and maybe also removing links), but that is not currently available.

That's good, because removing it from the explorer would 1) not remove automatically the branches going down (and not used by another sidelink).

I nearly forgot: I would be even more useful to be able to add some download-possibilities when finding out, that a link in the offline tree was not followed (e.g. because it lies inside another site) and the user wants it to be available offline too. So when browsing to that node, it would be nice, if he can e.g. order A1WD to download this contents including all the links from there for a given number of levels.

This all would result in a kind of interactive way of deciding which links are followed and which are not.

Feb 16 at 9:38pm

Thomas Schulz Michael R:

Thanks for you suggestion.

Currently external files are downloaded if used as "source". E.g. if a website uses an image located on an external domain, it is still downloaded because it is used as source/src.

Microsys - Feb 17 at 3:33am

Thomas Schulz Just for information, this offer will be kept throughout sunday as well for those who saw about the offer too late :)

Microsys - Feb 17 at 3:37am