How to Download a Website or a List of URLs for Offline Use
The quickest method to create a task is through the Create Task bar
in the Tasks tab:
- This is a perfect method for getting just webpages. You only need
to enter the address of a webpage and press Enter key (or click on the Get
button). You can also drag a URL from external or the built-in browser to the Tasks window
or to the Drop Box.
- If you want to retrieve a webpage and all links from the page, you
should also set the Depth of link exploration to 1. To download a
webpage, all pages linked to the page, and all pages linked to all those pages,
set the Depth to 2. Depth can be set as deep as 255. You can raise or lower the Depth for a task at any time. It is not
recommended though to set depths to a value more than 2 without specifying a
filter.
When you create a task through Create Task bar the task is created
with the default filter "Retrieve pages within this site only".
- If you want to download entire website you should
set the Depth to a large value (e.g. 20 will be sufficient in most but
very rare cases). The program retrieves websites
by levels so
you can
 stop a task when a website is retrieved down to
a level you think is sufficient.
- If you want more options (such as to specify filters or
get new version of pages and websites)
you should create tasks via the New Task dialog box.
See  New Task dialog box for more options.
You can also import a list of URLs from a text file.
The tasks you create are added to the
list of tasks. You can create
any number of tasks with same or different parameters including tasks with the same
starting URL. If the number of tasks
becomes too large you have an option to organize
them by folders.
If you are working in  Online mode, the pages and websites start downloading
immediately after you create a task. If you are in  Offline mode the tasks
will be waiting until you Go Online. You can watch the progress
in the Progress window
and the Statistics
window. When the number of queued files shown in the Statistics
window will become zero, all tasks will be finished.
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