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Hello.
A hopefully simple question which I suspect may get rather complicated.
Is there a simple way that I can archive an etire website? It's not very big (a forum with about 5500 posts on it) and I have a 500GB hardrive so that should be fine.
I am having a dispute with someone and the evidence I need to back me up is contained within the forum, but the person with whom I am having the dispute contolls it and I don't want the evidence going walkies.
Is there a simple way to archive the whole lot or do I have to go through each thread/page and copy and paste it into word or similar one page/thread at a time?
Just to complicate matters I have no admin login rights.
Any advice much appreciated.
Cheers,
Andy H
there is a command line tool called wget that will do the job nicely. It is available for Windows, Mac and even Linux
Rachel
Of course, it will only archive what it can actually see...
I've heard of a tool called HTTrack but I've never had cause to try it.
Surely the evidence isn't scattered around the entire forum anyway. Could you not just be a bit more selective.
HTTrack is the one I've heard of, but never used.
http://download.cnet.com/HTTrack-Website-Copier/3000-18500_4-10039773.html
Is this your ongoing warranty issue?
Seem to remember some software you can download a website to pdf, set to follow links etc. Probably acrobat prof, but there will be free / trial versions.
http://www.ghacks.net/2008/04/12/convert-a-full-website-into-pdf/
http://download.cnet.com/Website-to-Pdf-Converter-3000/3000-6675_4-10957922.html
Yep Acrobat professional will do it and has a 30 day free version.
Those programs won't get the forum contents though unless there are links to every page of it.
You could screen grab it rather grab the code, that way it's arguably better as it wouldn't be hard to tamper with the code to make it say what you want. Yeah I know photoshop could do similar but it's trickier to get right.
What forums don't use links, Molgrips? ❓
Thanks so far guys. There are 220 threads, about a dozen of which are relavent. I'm doing a copy and paste job on those at present. There are others which could well be useful for charactor references for the protoganists (he has a history of promising loads and delivery bugger all)
I don't think there are many links, it's just the content I need to prove who said what when.
I'm not very computer minded so I think the old copy and paste may be quicker than me trying to download something! I was just hoping for a 'super copy all and paste' type of button.
Thanks again.