SiteCrawler 1.0.1 review

SiteCrawler is a website downloading application that lets you capture entire sites or selected portions, like image galleries.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 511K Developer: Lighthead Software Buy Now Price: $20.00 Updated: 26 Sep 2006

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SiteCrawler is a website downloading application that lets you capture entire sites or selected portions, like image galleries. It features powerful settings that no other application offers.

You don't have to be an expert to use SiteCrawler. While the advanced features are easily accessible, they don't bog down the basic settings, so you can stay focused on the task at hand. To start crawling a site, enter a web address and choose a destination folder on your disk. Further options help you fine-tune the behavior, such as which parts of the site to access.

While SiteCrawler crawls a site, you can pause it to change the settings. When you resume, the new settings are picked up immediately. So if you see files being downloaded that you don't really want, there's no need to stop the session.

You can save sessions for later, even in the midst of downloading. You can then re-open the session later, and pick up right where you left off!

Limitations:
The unlicensed version will only work for 15 minutes.

What's New:
SiteCrawler now doesn't even start on system versions prior to 10.4, to prevent confusion.
HTML body background images are now recognized and crawled.
Improved authentication system:
Fixed a problem where the authentication sheet didn't work.
A new 'Skip All' button for suppressing all future authentication.
If an authentication request is added while another auth sheet is already displayed, it is queued, and displayed later.
Fixed a problem where redundant authentication sheets were shown.
The default name for sessions when saving is now set to the downloaded domain name, if available. This is also used as the name for zip files, if necessary.
An option has been added to remove the original folders after zipping, leaving only the zip archive itself.
There is now a 15 minute time limit for unregistered users instead of nag dialogs popping up.
HTML anchor names are no longer one character shorter than they should be.
Other smaller bug fixes.