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by tamimio 738 days ago
How is it different from HTTrack? And what about the media extension, which one is supported and which one isn’t? Sometimes when I download some sites with HTTrack, some files just get ignored because by default it looks only for default types, and you have to manually add them there.
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Big fan of HTTrack! reminds me of the old days and makes me sad of the current state of the web.

I am not sure if HTTTrack progressed from fetching resources, long time since I used it for last time, but what my project does, is spin a real web-browser(chrome in headless mode which means it's hidden) and then it lets the JavaScript on that website execute, which means it will display/generate some fancy HTML that you can then save it as is into an index.html. It saves all kind of files, it doesn't care the extension or mime types of files, it tries to save them all.

> It saves all kind of files, it doesn't care the extension or mime types of files, it tries to save them all.

That’s awesome to know, I will give it a try. One website I remember I tried to download and has all sorts of animations with .riv extension and it didn’t work well with HTTrack, will try it with this soon, thanks for sharing it!

let me know how that goes I am interested!