Download Bleg

Folks,

I’m looking for a download manager that has the following characteristics:

  1. It works with Windows XP.
  2. It ain’t got spyware,
  3. It’s preferably free (or just cheap, if necessary),
  4. It will download a page and all the pages linked from that page in the same domain.

F’rinstance:

Suppose I want to download a particular page and all 1,564 links found on that page (there is such a page at present). What would I use?

Advice appreciated!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

8 thoughts on “Download Bleg”

  1. Jimmy, Internet Explorer has a Synchronize menu item under the Tools. You can use that to create an off-line copy of a website. This should give you what you need.

  3. Jimmy, HTTrack should do what you want. I don’t believe that it has spyware.
    -Jesse
    http://www.httrack.com/
    From the site:
    Q: Is there any ‘spyware’ or ‘adware’ in this program? Can you prove that there isn’t any?
    A: No ads (banners), and absolutely no ‘spy’ features inside the program.
    The best proof is the software status: all sources are released, and everybody can check them. Open source is the best protection against privacy problems – HTTrack is an open source project, free of charge and free of any spy ‘features’.

  4. LeechGet is a great spyware-free download manager. It is free for personal use. It’s parse URL feature will allow you to download sublinks on a site but I’m not sure how far down it goes because I haven’t really used it that much.
    http://www.leechget.net/en/

  7. Actually, if you’ve got broadband, I find a download manager is unnecessary when you use the DownThemAll extension. Tools/Extensions, Get New Extensions, install DownThemAll and try it out. It will download every blessed link on a page quite easily.

  8. Firefox also has an extension called “download them all” which you can use to download everything linked on that page or select from extension types.

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