5 Free Offline Browser and Webpage downloader

Every wanted to download a whole websites and all the WebPages that are linked from them? Offline browsers can be one of the best tools for you. Offline Browser are quite unpopular these days because, most of the websites have been so much dynamic that it keeps changing and the downloaded pages may not provide up-to-date information.

However, there are certain websites, for instance, website about internet tutorials, electronic projects, food recipe, organization, etc which have static website or never updating pages. You might find the necessity of downloading these webpages to your hard drive for later review.

There are several softwares available to download WebPages just form single click. But when you search it on Google, most of them need some money to purchase. And even they are free, they are only for demo or trial software. Even though you can increase the time of trial period and tweak it such a way that it never expires (Read about the hack here), you might feel little more comfortable and risk free with freeware.

Here are the lists of 5 Freeware from which you can download any WebPage easily.

NetMan

No more clicking 50 times on the ‘Back’-Button of your Browser to save some pictures. No more downloading hundreds of thumbnail-pictures. KIPPING’s NetMan was first developed for users that collect pictures from the Internet – but its versatility and the permanent extension with new functions make it to an powerful DownloadManager.

HTTrack Website Copier

It allows you to download a World Wide Web site from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. HTTrack arranges the original site’s relative link-structure. Simply open a page of the “mirrored” website in your browser, and you can browse the site from link to link, as if you were viewing it online. HTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads. HTTrack is fully configurable, and has an integrated help system.

GetLeft

It is supposed to download complete Web sites. You give it an URL, and down it goes on, happily downloading every linked URL in that site.

WebReaper

WebReaper is web crawler or spider, which can work its way through a website, downloading pages, pictures and objects that it finds so that they can be viewed locally, without needing to be connected to the internet. The sites can be saved locally as a fully-browsable website which can be viewed with any browser (such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, etc), or they can be saved into the Internet Explorer cache and viewed using IE’s offline mode as if the you’d surfed the sites ‘by hand’.

BackStreet Browser

It is a free, powerful offline browser. A high-speed, multi-threading website download and viewing program. By making multiple simultaneous server requests, BackStreet Browser can quickly download entire website or part of a site including HTML, graphics, Java Applets, sound and other user definable files, and saves all the files in your hard drive, either in their native format, or as a compressed ZIP file and view offline.

With any of the above freeware, you can download large list of WebPages and view them later.

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