Downloading whole site

[vaibhav24in]

How I can download the whole site??? which software can help me?/.

[djr33]

Your own?

You would want to use FTP and just copy all of the files/folders in the main (root) directory to your harddrive.

Of course I'm assuming you want to back up.

If not, please clarify.

If your host does not allow FTP, then there is likely a backup option somewhere, or I'd recommend switching hosts.

[vaibhav24in]

No actully I want to download a site from which I am having java script tutorials. assume it is dynamicdrive. then how can I save every page of it?

[shachi]

vaibhav24in: httrack probably? http://www.httrack.com/

[djr33]

Hmm.... in a way, questionable, legally.
But assuming educational purposes, or something...
I don't know of a way to do that. The link provided above seems to be a good solution.
You could try to write something in PHP that would grab it for you, but it's a big project.
Really, you'd need to create a database to find all of the possible links that are within the site (and filter out those that are not), then copy those files, etc.

[ddadmin]

Most webmasters don't appreciate people who use site rippers to just download their entire site instead of browsing it online. There are many reasons for this, all of which are obvious I think from the webmaster standpoint. Firstly, a lot of content based sites rely on advertising to pay the bills, which a site ripper bypasses. Also, most site rippers are poorly coded and hit the site's server hard with tons of simultaneous connections (I've banned more than a few). And finally, there's the issue of legality as far as copyright and your right to store an entire copy of a site on your hard drive.

[eXceed69]

That will be hacking, it's bad and annoying your own been fringe by other, how sad. :(

[jr_yeo]

GetLeft :P

[djr33]

The other issue is simply functionality. Relative vs. Absolute links, to name the obviousy, will just get all weird.
Unless you will for a time not have an internet connection, I don't see the advantage in this.

[Twey]

There are many tools that can do this, from wget on down. However, as ddadmin says, this can be a very intensive transaction for the website, so it's not considered polite (although it is perfectly legal in most cases).