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 downloading tools, you should make sure they can use multiple simultaneous connections, support include and exclude filters for crawl and download, can follow all kinds of references including redirects, frames, javascripts and images and support automated download of websites at times convenient to you, e.g. at night.

…And 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.

The before mentioned website downloader tool can also browse the downloaded websites offline. In the screenshot shown below, we are browsing the downloaded pictures and photos (since the program can also be used as an image downloader) in off-line mode:

Note: You can also browse downloaded websites in your favorite internet browser.

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.

• .bmp
• .jpg
• .gif
• .png

Video related file extensions:

• .swf
• .wmf
• .mov
• .avi
• .flv

While video formats that dynamically redirect and stream data can be a little problematic, making sure above file extensions have been added will allow you to download complete video and image galleries from most websites.

Faster way to add specific file extension types
Instead of manually adding file extensions, simply use the “Quick presets…” button in A1 Website Download. It enables you to add various groups of file extensions, e.g. images and pictures, videos, compressed files and documents files, with the click of a mouse button.

Pure image downloader tool
Whether you want to download all image gallery pictures and photos, download all videos, download all PDF documents or download whichever kind of files, you can use the A1 Website Download tool for this. Just edit the list of file extensions in the output filters / list filters to mattch your needs. If you only include videos and images file extensions, that is all you will have downloaded at the end of the website crawl.

More website image download tutorials
At this point, you just need to set website root path and start downloading! Alternatively, if you need more information before you get started, you can also read these tutorials about downloading files, including pictures and photos, from websites:

• website downloader
• image downloader (extended tutorial compared to this)

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.

• Download large and dynamic websites.
• Improve download performance by configuring simultaneous connections.
• Convert downloaded websites from internet, intranet, localhost etc.
• Use download exclude filters to control which files to scan and download.
• Follow all file and document references including frames, redirects and images.
• Login through some post form and baisc authentication user access systems.

To purchase will set you back $39 USD, but there is a 30 days free trial you can try first. To read more or download the trial, click here.