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WebCopier Pro promises to speed up your Web browsing by downloading entire Web sites to your hard drive, freeing you from the sluggishness of your Internet connection. In this age of high-speed Internet, however, we're not sure how relevant this is. While it might be better than no Web access at all, we found it to be significantly slower than browsing a Web site with a cable Internet connection.
The program's interface is not the most intuitive we've ever seen, but it looks nice and isn't terribly difficult to figure out with a little effort. Downloading a Web site is fairly easy; WebCopier has a wizard that walks you through the process, and for the most part all you have to do is wait. And depending on the size of the Web site, you might be waiting a while. We tried the program on a smaller site and although it managed to download most of it, it seemed to get inexplicably hung up on one file, and we couldn't figure out any way around it. We decided to browse what had been downloaded of the site, and we can't say we were terribly impressed. It appears that you can only browse downloaded sites within WebCopier Pro, and this is actually significantly slower than using the Internet. The program is just sluggish, taking a surprisingly long time to load pages that are stored on the hard drive. The program's Help file is adequate. Overall, WebCopier Pro works, but it doesn't work that well.
WebCopier Pro has a 15-day trial period. It installs politely but leaves a folder behind upon removal. We recommend this program with reservations.
Publisher's Description
From MaximumSoft:
Have you ever wanted to have a copy of your favorite Web sites or browse sites even when your computer isn't connected to the Internet? If the answer is Yes, then try WebCopier - the program that downloads websites to your computer, and allows you to view and print them at any time. WebCopier can copy or print whole sites or sections. Your saved pages can be copied onto disks and CDs, so you can take your Web-snapshot with you. Companies can use WebCopier to transfer company's intranet contents to staff desktops and notebooks, create a copy of companies' online catalogs and brochures for sales personal, backup corporate web sites, print downloaded files.
Individuals can use WebCopier to save complete copies of their favorite sites, magazines or stock quotes. Students can download enormous amounts of information from the Internet for later study. Teachers can download whole sites so their students can view them later offline. Developers may use this tool to analyze websites structure, find dead links on a Web site.
What's new in this version: Version 5.4 has better support for downloading video clips, ability to download images first, and improved download of large websites, over 2GB.
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"Great website grabber, Must have it Utitlity"
Version: WebCopier Pro 4.3
Pros
WebCopier Pro is really great tool to grap all compleate website (or any part of it) and view it later any time. It has varity of configurations for coping a website like you can exclude all imgae files or you can direct to only copy html pages
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"Not user friendly , bad customer support , too pricy."
Version: WebCopier Pro 4.3
Pros
It looks nice.
Cons
Terrible customer support ( actually non-existant). I send numerous messages requesting some support , and still have not heard from them.
It's not very user friendly like other offline browsers. Made a big mistake paying for this.
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"This product works very stably."
Version: WebCopier Pro 4.2
Pros
This product works very stably.
Dima_R which gives all download managers 1 is absolutelly uncompetent and seems never tries them at all.
Cons
no cons
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"This product works very not stably."
Version: WebCopier Pro 4.2
Cons
Some web links does not process. Site downloaded not correctly.
Very large price.
The help not is very clear, it is very difficult to find a necessary prompt.
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"Fancy UI but does it work?"
Version: WebCopier Pro 4.2
Pros
See cons.
Cons
No it doesn't work, at least not for complex sites. Hangs in the middle of the download. Seems to get lost. Ignores filter options set under Project Settings (maybe it's looking at the wrong fields?). I can only assume that other users (and possibly cnet) only tested it with simple sites.
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"Fast, flawless, many options"
Version: WebCopier Pro 4.2
Pros
I loved the multitude of options, over 60, with some I had never seen on any other program. Some options: the convenient "download within the starting directory and below" option; very detailed url filters; file filters listing specific types of files and specific extensions; rename downloading files; offsite links limit; the option to download specified types of files, such as images, from any location; and download speed, in increments of 10 (rather than just 3 or 4) from "slow" to "fast." It has so many options, they even include "autosync with a pocket PC."
As for the interface, it is very detailed and informative. Some things it displays are: the website tree; the current speed, average speed, and a graph of the speed over time; the current downloads, their size, and their status; the time elapsed and estimated time until completion; number of files downloaded, number filtered out, and number of errors.
Another convenience is that when the program is instructed to close while it is downloading, it automatically saves the queue and other information first. Thus, downloading can be paused and the program simply closed, and upon restart, the program is able to immediately resume downloading without delay from where it had been paused.
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"Works fine for me"
Version: WebCopier Pro 4.2
Pros
- Allows to see site structure
- Can download only selected files
- Speed
- Nice and clean interface
Cons
Price
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"Good but Slow"
Version: WebCopier Pro 4.2
Pros
is works on small websites
Cons
It uses way to long time to analyze the files is has downloaded
And it doesn’t download the entire site most of the time
looks non proffestional and cheap
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