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Participants swifttinker40Kyle Johnson2wiredcanyon94
swifttinker40 swifttinker40 MemberOP
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#1 ·
So, I opened up a specific website and clicked through two different links—basically just two subpages—and now I’m planning to head over to my sister's place to show her what I found. The thing is, she doesn't have any internet access at her house.
Is there actually a way to get those pages to load for her offline? I've heard somewhere that browsers stash things in some kind of temporary cache or local storage area.
Does anyone happen to know if there's a reliable way to pull this off?
Kyle Johnson2 Kyle Johnson2 Newcomer
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swifttinker40 said:I should probably take my laptop over to my sister's (she’s got no internet) and show her the page.
Is there any way to open those pages without being online? I heard they get stored in some kind of temporary cache or something.

Not exactly making sense here. Are we talking about a CMS or just plain old HTML? Did you host this on a live web server or is it running on your local machine? Give me something to work with.

Option 1.
If it's a CMS hosted on a live server, just grab a tool to download the entire site so you can view it Offline.

Option 2.
If it's just standard HTML files sitting on your computer, just grab the whole folder, throw it on a thumb drive, and move it to her PC. Easy.

Option 3
If you've got a localhost server running on your rig, try converting the site for Offline viewing again.

Or honestly, just save the thing as a PDF and show her that. You haven't given me enough info—what's the setup, what's the goal, what have you actually done? Help me help you.
wiredcanyon94 wiredcanyon94 Active Member
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#3 ·
swifttinker40 said:I opened this website where I clicked two different links (two subpages), and now I need to lug my laptop over to my sister's place—she doesn't have internet access—to show her those pages.
Is there any way to open them there without being online? I heard they get stored in some kind of temporary cache or something.
Anyone know how to pull this off?

Just use "Save As" and select "Web Page, Complete" for both of them.
swifttinker40 swifttinker40 MemberOP
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#4 ·
I suppose I didn't explain myself very clearly before—let me try this again.
Imagine I'm looking at a real estate site with maybe ten different apartment listings. Instead of clicking each one individually and manually doing a "File > Save As" ten times—which seems like a tedious way to spend an afternoon—I'd much rather just grab them all at once.
I've heard there are tools out there designed to scrape everything in one go, saving me from that repetitive clicking.
The idea is that the software asks how deep you want to crawl; in my case, I really just need it to stay at a depth of one link.

So, someone suggested I try using "HTTrack website Copier". I downloaded it and tried to run the process, but I keep getting hit with this error message:

* * MIRROR ERROR! * * HTTrack has detected that the current mirror is empty. If it was an update, the previous mirror has been restored. Reason: the first page(s) either could not be found, or a connection problem occured. => Ensure that the website still exists, and/or check your proxy settings

Hopefully, that makes more sense now.
wiredcanyon94 wiredcanyon94 Active Member
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swifttinker40 said:You’re right, I didn't explain myself very well. Let me try again.
Imagine I open a real estate site looking for apartments, and there are 10 listings. I need to open all 10 links, and then I'd have to hit "File > Save As" ten separate times just to get them over to my sister.
I heard there are programs that can grab everything in one go so I don't have to manually save every single link.
The idea is the software asks how deep you want to crawl, and in my case, I just need it to grab the content one level deep.

So, some guy tells me I can use wget. I downloaded it and tried to scrape the page, but I keep getting this error message:

* * MIRROR ERROR! * * wget has detected that the current mirror is empty. If it was an update, the previous mirror has been restored. Reason: the first page(s) either could not be found, or a connection problem occurred. => Ensure that the website still exists, and/or check your proxy settings

Hopefully, that makes more sense now.

Some websites aren't exactly easy to scrape. You have to do a little digital wizardry—try this, tweak that...
At the end of the day, ten pages isn't exactly a massive workload for "Save As." It's literally ten clicks.

Or, if it's really being difficult, just tell your sister to come over and look at the listings on your screen.

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