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- Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $39.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: December 16, 2002
- Total Downloads: 387,504
- Downloads last week: 172
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- Average user rating: stars out of 40 votes
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From SoftByte Labs :BlackWidow will scan a Web site and present found files Explorer-style. You specify file types you want it to show you (HTML, GIF, JPEG), and BlackWidow maps the entire Web site to search for them. You can view information about each file and select files to download. Features include a Suspend function, login and password functions for security, a function that provides proxies and ports, and select/deselect capabilities for files and extensions. BlackWidow also features a browser, the ability to resume broken downloads, wildcard file selection, maximum and minimum file size selection, and a true offline browser with automatic links and indexes. Plus, BlackWidow allows you to retrieve e-mail; retrieve a file's title; check for bad links; resume broken downloads; scan HTTP, SSL (HTTPS), and FTP sites; verify external links; include and exclude filters; browse while scanning or downloading; create your own link files; and scan across sites. It also includes features such as an offline browsing directory converter; iconic structure display; wildcards for files, URLs, and MIME; file type and size filtering; and automatic firewall and proxy settings. You can pull links from JavaScripts and JavaScripts files.
Version 4.37 features several enhancements and a minor bug fix and you can view, edit and print the structure of a Web site, write your own 'Plug-ins' for impossible to scan sites, and automatically load plug-ins.
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User reviews of BlackWidow 4.37
- Average user rating: 3.6 stars out of 40 votes
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: BlackWidow 4.37
Pros: I recently had a problem with a website I own, whereby the host access went down permanently and I had also lost backups of my files. I thought I was doomed, but along came black widow! With this tool I was able to successfully download my whole website from its original host, in order to move it to the new one. I've looked everywhere for a tool like this and this is definitely the best I've found.Brilliant, 5*s!
Cons: Quite difficult to use at first, the options are somewhat confusing, and it often doesn't do quite what you wanted it to. Despite this however, once you've worked out how to use it, it works like a charm!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: BlackWidow 4.37
"excellent if you're undemanding"
Pros: good viewing of what you have or will download.
tabs and directory tree structure make a nice interface once you get the hang of it.
i'm looking for something that can roll numbers in pathnames and filenames and this can roll numbers, sort of (see cons).
once the painful process of guessing what features do is behind you, this program is pretty good.
Cons: it can roll numbers, but only in the filname, not in the pathname. Example:
wherever.com/folder002/pic07.jpg
It can roll pic07.jpg to pic08.jpg and so on, but YOU have to input folder002 and folder003 and so on. it lets you input a links page, so that's not quite so painful if you know how to use find-replace features in whatever text editor you use to quickly create a links page.
By the way, it can pad pic99 to pic099 and it can roll pic099 to pic100 but can't roll pic99 to pic100 which is what you need more often than not when rolling numbers in filenames.
it took me a while to figure out using a local links page.
unhelpful error comes up when executing after loading a local links page unless you have a url, ANY url, in the main url box, even though there are plenty of urls in your links page. that one was hard to figure out, because i thought something must be wrong with my local links page.
scan/download is manual usually, but automatic when you merely select a local links page.
things like that are just asking for repeated user error.
the links file can be a text file, but must be full of html links, with A HREF and such, not just a list of urls. that's just silly.
the scan filters are great, but i see no way to apply them other than to delete the current scan and start over with the filters in place.
help files mention url filter and file filter tabs for dealing with filters but help doesn't bother to mention WHERE to find those tabs. most of those features mentioned seem to be in the scan filters section, so i think the help files weren't updated since a previous version.
i gave it three stars instead of four because the price implies the intended scope/scale. for 40 bucks i want the features that it includes to be fleshed out, thought out, flexible, not stubborn and skeletal.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: BlackWidow 4.37
"Great product that does it's job!"
Pros: A good value for money. Does not take up much system resources. Quick and easy to use.Best of all, the support is excellent!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: BlackWidow 4.37
"Exactly what I was looking for"
Pros: This is a web spider that can be tought to do exactly what is needed for a variety of downloading tasks. It is flexible and versatile. I did go with the 5.0 beta version rather than 4.37
Cons: 4.37 didn't work well on 2/3 machines. 4.40 installed fine but the 5.0 beta version is truly the necessary download
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Version: BlackWidow 4.37
"IT WORKS...by golly...IT WORKS"
Pros: I played around for maybe 20 minutes to get the hang of how to use it. It does exactly what I want it to. Pic grabbing from a website is a two step process - 1) get a list of all the pics (and other objects) related to a URL; 2) select and download the pics. BlackWidow made both steps very easy. Works great, and VERY easy on the RAM usage. I absolutely could not be more pleased.
Cons: Like every other program I ever downloaded from the web, the instructions are fuzzy. But I'm no computer pro, and I figured it out with a little trial and error. Very little effort.
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