I want to rip the contents of a pay website, but I have to log in to their web site on a web page to get access
Does anyone have any good tools for Windows for that?
I’m guessing that any such tools must have a built in browser, or be a browser plugin for it to work.
Okay, I found SurfOffline that does the trick without too much hassle, but…
It’s verrrrrrrry slooooooooow.
It uses Internet Explorer as a module, and calls each individual resource separately, instead of file copying from IE’s cache, which is weird and slow, especially when hundreds of images are involved.
And SurfOffline doesn’t appear to be supported anymore, i.e. the support email’s inbox is full.
edit: Aaaaand SurfOffline doesn’t save to .html files with a directory structure!!! It stores everything in some kind of sql database, and it only saves to .mht and .chm files, which are deprecated Microsoft help file formats!!!
What it does have is a built in web server that only works while the program is running.
So what I plan to do is have the program up but doing nothing, while I sick Httrack on the 127.0.0.1 web address for my ripped website.
Httrrack will hopefully “extract” the website to .html format.
Whew, what a hassle!