Web Dumper is the ultimate tool for downloading whole web sites from the World-Wide-Web. Multithreaded design rapidly spiders and downloads entire web sites with ease and automatically without user intervention! Let us show you how!
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1.- Getting started
2.- Downloading a website
3.- Setup
4.- Solving troubles
5.- Legal Disclaimer
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1.- Getting started
Web Dumper works the same way all common web browsers use to do, downloading documents from the World Wide Web using HTTP protocol. But rather than displaying them with their embedded pictures, songs or movies, it saves them to files for later offline browsing. Furthermore, instead of downloading one only document per user request from the web at a time, Web Dumper goes thru all links and get any document linked to the given starting page again and again recreating on your hard drive a copy a the original site's folder hierarchy.
2.- Downloading a website
Enter the URL you want Web Dumper to download, no need to specify the protocol to be used (always 'http://' by default) and push 'Dump' button. Your URL will be added to the history bookmark list and will be available next time thru the list popup on the right.
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Once download is started you can follow all processes from the same window including thru a detailed file list accessible pushing the disclosure triangle on the bottom left edge.
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3.- Setup
General settings
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Depth level:
Depth level setting defines how many levels of nested folders you want to be processed. Check 'infinite' to remove any limit or use the slider to set its value from a range of 1 to 30.
Go deeper only:
Force Web Dumper to process HTML files from current path and deeper folders only. If checked, then only links in directories deeper than the current directory will be followed.
Example: Assume the current page is http://maxprog.com/support/index.html, then http://maxprog.com/support/WebDumper.html would be followed, but http://www.maxprog.com//index.html would not.
External Links:
Allow or disallow Web Dumper to download documents or pages elements from other servers. You can choose from disallowing external servers, allowing file download only or file download and processing (process external files for more linked documents).
Re-Link documents:
Re-link all documents for offline browsing replacing all absolute links to local ones. This option is mainly intended to prepare downloaded files for being viewed offline.
File map
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File mapping shows you how Web Dumper will handle your file and what finder icon will be used. Just activate or deactivate file type download pushing corresponding check boxes. This way you can control which types of files should be downloaded to your computer. HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) files are always downloaded since they are required for spidering to function. All other file types, such as gifs, jpegs, sound files and so on may be individually turned on and off.
Advanced settings
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Bandwidth:
Set how much bandwidth can be used when downloading, It is a percentage scale of available system bandwidth from 10 to 100% in steps of 25%..
Connection:
Set how many simultaneous connections Web Dumper will perform to boost the overall downloading performances. Time-out is the time in seconds a connection will wait for a response before giving up.
Proxy:
A proxy or proxy server is a computer which services web requests on behalf of it's network clients. Proxy servers are common in large corporations and even in small companies where once computer is setup with an Internet connection and other computers on the LAN use it. Just enter your assigned proxy server address and port. If you don't have a proxy server, then you won't need to use this option.
Protocol:
How Web Dumper identifies itself when connecting to a web server.
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Download folder:
Set here the destination folder where all download files will be saved. Downloaded sites are archived with their directory structure intact.
Authentication:
Some websites protect access with authentication which requires you to enter a name and password to access the site. Normally your browser would pop up a window asking for this information when authentication is required, but Web Dumper is intended for automated operation, so it would be best if you entered your authentication information ahead of time.
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Authentication 'User ID'. This is the authentication user name, as assigned to you by the site administrator.
Authentication 'Password'. This is the password, as assigned to you by the site administrator.
4.- Troubleshooting
If you are having troubles getting started or using Web Dumper, feel free to ask us using our support inquiry form located at http://inquiry.maxprog.com/. Please be as descriptive as possible.
5.- Legal Disclaimer
BY USING THIS DOCUMENT, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS PRESENTED BELOW:
Use the information contained in this document at your own risk. Under no circumstances, including negligence, shall Max Programming be liable for any incidental, special or consequential damages that result from the use of this document, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
