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- WebReaper Offline Browser
- =========================
-
- What is WebReaper?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- WebReaper is web crawler or spider, which can work its way through
- a website, downloading pages, pictures and objects that it finds so
- that they can be viewed locally, without needing to be connected to
- the internet. The sites can be saved locally as a fully-browsable
- website which can be viewed with any browser (such as Internet
- Explorer, Netscape, Opera, etc), or they can be saved into the
- Internet Explorer cache and viewed using IE's offline mode as if
- the you'd surfed the sites 'by hand'.
-
- To use WebReaper, simply enter a starting URL, and hit the Go
- button. The program will then download the page at that URL,
- parsing the HTML as it goes, looking for links to other pages and
- objects. It will then extract this list of sub-links and download
- them. This process continues recursively until either no more links
- fulfil WebReaper's filter criteria or your hard disk becomes full -
- which ever happens first!
-
- The locally saved files will have their HTML links adjusted so that
- they can be browsed as if they were being read directly from the
- internet.
-
- The download is fully configurable - custom hierarchical filters
- can be constructed from 12 different filter types to allow targetted
- downloads. Simple filters can be built using the Filter Wizard, or
- more complex ones can be hand-crafted.
-
- Installation
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- The software runs on either Windows 95 & 98, NT 4 and Windows 2000. You must
- also have Internet Explorer v4 or higer installed. Simply run the webreaper.exe
- installation program and follow the on-screen instructions to install WebReaper.
- The program has an uninstall option so can be removed simply and quickly.
-
- Y2K Issues
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- WebReaper is 100% Y2K compliant.
-
- How Much Does It Cost?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- WebReaper is Freeware for non-commercial use. You may use the
- fully functional application for as long as you like, without
- restriction, and with support from myself.
-
- However, if you like WebReaper, find it useful, or use it in
- a commercial environment, please register your copy, giving
- you peace-of-mind, safe in the knowledge that you've c
- ontributed to the development of the application.
-
- Registration costs just $40, and can be done from within the
- application (within the About dialog box, under the Help
- menu), using a secure credit-card payment system.
-
- Licence
- ~~~~~~~
- This software is released as FREEWARE for non-commercial use, but it
- may not be sold or be included in a product or package which intends to
- receive benefits through the inclusion of this software. This software may
- be distributed freely over the Internet as long as the file(s) remain
- unmodified. This software may not be included on CD-ROMs without prior
- permission from the author. Commercial users should register their copy
- for $40 using the online secure credit-card payment system on the 'About'
- box.
-
- Disclaimer
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- THIS SOFTWARE AND THE ACCOMPANYING FILES ARE DISTRIBUTED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT
- ANY WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. NO REPONSIBILITIES FOR POSSIBLE
- DAMAGES OR EVEN FUNCTIONALITY CAN BE TAKEN. THE USER MUST ASSUME THE ENTIRE
- RISK OF USING THIS PROGRAM.
-
- Updates
- ~~~~~~~
- If you would like to be notified about future WebReaper updates, please visit
- the website (see below) where you can subscribe to the WebReaper mailing
- list.
-
-
- The Author
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- This software was written by Mark Otway. Copyright (c) 1998-2001 Bluebeam Ltd
-
- You can contact me via email: webreaper@otway.com
-
- Alternatively, visit the WebReaper page - either:
- 1. Go to http://www.otway.com/webreaper or
- 2. Click on the link in the about box within the application.
-
- Portions Copyright 1999 Kirk Stowell
-