Downloading a website is also useful if you need to present website development work to clients or backup some information website for later offline browsing.

With website download tools, you should make sure they can use multiple connections, support include and exclude filters for crawl and download, can follow all kinds of references including redirects, frames, javascripts and images, supports automated download of websites at times convenient to you, e.g. at night etc. More than anything, you should also make sure to test them on a variety of websites.

One website downloader tool that supports all of above, and has a trial period where you can test everything, is A1 Website Download. For more alternatives, try search Google for search phrases such as “website download”, “website downloader”, “download websites” and similar. You can also try check Download.com for more options.

Website downloader utilities have many purposes: Browse websites offline when outside internet range. Bring websites to meetings with clients to show them website development progress. Download websites to backup or mirror important content, e.g. if website server is about to malfunction.

Some of the features in A1 Website Download includes: Download websites using multiple connections. use include and exclude filters to control which files to crawl and download, follow all kinds of references including redirects, frames, javascripts and images, automate download of websites at times convenient to you, convert all website links to relative and many other options and program tools.

Pricing and Availability:
A1 Website Download runs under all Windows platforms (from Windows 95 to Windows 7) and costs $39 (US). The 30 days A1 Website Download product trial is fully-functional and allows to download complete websites. Further information on the program, as well as the free evaluation copy, is available from the website download product page and be ordered directly from Microsys. The program comes with install and uninstall support. While the native program user interface is English, it has been partly or fully translated into many other languages.

About Microsys:
Microsys is located in Aarhus, Denmark. The company is proud to be a member of Association of Software Professionals (www.asp-software.org). For further information, view the about Microsys pages.

Common image file extensions:

• .bmp
• .jpg
• .gif
• .png

Video related file extensions:

• .swf
• .wmf
• .mov
• .avi

Video formats which dynamicly redirects and streams data can still be a little problematic. However, adding above file extensions will work with most websites, and make it possible to download complete video and image galleries.

If you only want to download images and videos
This is done by controlling the file extensions listed in the output filters / list filters. If you only include videos and images file extensions and mime types, that is all you will have downloaded at the end of the website scan.

At this point, you just need to set website root path and start downloading
For more information, see this website download tutorial.

Downloading websites
It does not matter if the website you are downloading is database-driven, uses a server side language such as PHP or has query parameters in URLs. The only option you need to configure when downloading is the “Website directory root path“. If you want to download and view multiple websites, you will also need to configure “Save files crawled to disk directory path“. After configuration, you are ready to “Start scan” and download websites.

After website download
The A1 Website Download tool will automatically show you the website content downloaded when it has finished scanning. At this point you can store the downloaded website somewhere else, e.g. on an USB disk or similar, and take the complete website with you. It is now possible to offline browse the web site with your preferred internet browser.