SiteSucker for Mac - Affordable and Powerful
Today I downloaded and tested an app that's been on my radar for a
while, SiteSucker
for Mac by developer Rick
Cranisky.. You can give this app a top level URL, specify how many
layers deep you want to go and it will download an entire web site,
complete with supporting files like images and style sheets. It has
regex filters for anything you want to exclude. After I ran it the first
time, I read the error log and excluded the site that was causing issues
and it ran much better after that. SiteSucker has been under continuous
development since the birth of Mac OX in 2001.
The version available in the App Store is $4.99. It does not downloaded embedded videos. To get that feature you need to download the pro version of the app from the developer's website. Be prepared to an extra $1 for the pro version. The developer states :
"SiteSucker Pro is an enhanced version of SiteSucker that can download embedded videos, including embedded YouTube, Vimeo, WordPress, and Wistia videos. SiteSucker Pro can also download sites from the Tor network. You can try SiteSucker Pro for up to 14 days before you buy it. During that period, the application is fully functional except that you can download no more than 100 files at a time."
When I ran SiteSuckker against one of my blogs, it created a copy of the website on my hard drive that was indistinguishable from the site hosted by my provider. The internal links were pointed to the local files downloaded, while the external links still pointed to the Internet. I had a couple of external links that generated downloads of huge XML files, in one case 375MBs of them. There are reports from some users that they've filled up all the available hard drive space by changing the default settings and not monitoring the download. Don't do that!
You can create default settings or save the settings for different websites as individual files you can open if you wish to re-download a copy of a site.