Making a website accessible offline ~ DepoTech

If you have an Internet connection at a limited speed and you still want to make available some sites offline? In this article, we will see a trick that allows you to visit a web page offline using HTTrack.

HTTrack is a web cleaner. It allows to download a website to your hard drive, building recursively all directories, recovering HTML, images and files from the server to your computer. After downloading and installing HTTrack. Start HTTrack, and give your project a name and choose its class.

In the Web Address (URL), type the address of the site you want to download.

Then click the "Set options" button in the Filter Rules tab, check the box gif, jpg, png, tif and bmp to download the images of pages returned. Using check boxes for download as music, animations, etc.

Then open the Limits tab. You can now set the maximum level of depth you will download in the tree view of the page you specified. Level 1 corresponds to the home page 2 to the home page and all the links it contains, etc.

Then specify the level of download links that point to external pages to the original site, 1 for example. If you are limited in size, you can set a maximum size in bytes of the site, 100000000 100 MB for example. Maximum Rate drop down the list and select 50,000 to increase the speed of downloading pages and images. Then open the Links tab. Check the box Download HTML first. All web pages are downloaded and before the images.

The capture begins. Warning, the operation can be quite long: all links are analyzed, images and downloaded pages and site architecture recreated on your hard drive. After the aspiration is complete, click the Browse button copy of the site.

You can then browse the website offline, directly from the downloaded files.

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