HTTrack Website Copier
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WebHTTrack 3.48.1 |
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| developer | Xavier Roche and freelance developer |
| Publishing year | May 1998 |
| Current version |
3.49-2 ( May 20, 2017 ) |
| operating system | Windows , Linux , Unix , BSD , Android |
| programming language | C. |
| category | Download manager |
| License | GPL ( free ) |
| German speaking | Yes |
| www.httrack.com | |
HTTrack Website Copier ("HTTrack" for short) is free software that can be used to copy entire websites to a local directory, e.g. B. on a hard drive can be created. The structure of the link remains functional.
Details
The program is published as free software under the GNU General Public License ( GPL for short ).
Possible uses of HTTrack include: B. Offline copies of websites for computers without an Internet connection and the backup of web content for the purpose of archiving, z. B. before the shutdown of a website.
Archived pages can be updated and interrupted downloads can be continued. Using filter lists, certain document types can be included or excluded.
HTTrack uses a so-called web crawler for downloading . If not switched off, the specifications of the robots.txt are observed. References ( left ) within Flash and Java applications (or applets ), as well as those generated by simple JavaScripts , are also carried out.
In addition to the command line version, there are variants with a graphical user interface - "WinHTTrack" for Windows (from Windows 2000 ) and "WebHTTrack" for Unix-like systems (such as Linux , Unix , BSD and Mac ). The Windows version is available in 32 or 64 bit and also as portable software . In addition to English, the user interface can be set in various other languages. A version for the Android operating system is also available.
Another author has a similar user interface for Linux as WinHTTrack, the project is called HTTraQt.