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by meiraleal 735 days ago
All the scenarios you described can be achieved by having access to the source code, assuming you own it.
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Lots of things are possible with access to source code that are still easier when someone writes a tool for that scenario.
Crawling a build you already have isn't one of them
The website in question may be a dynamic website (e.g., WordPress, MediaWiki, or whatever other CMS or custom web app) and you either want a snapshot of it for backup, or you run it locally and want un static copy to host it elsewhere that only support static files.