BasicsSaving Web Sites
Tasks:
What are Tasks?
WebZIP Task Wizard
Profiles:
What are
Profiles?
Supplied Profiles
Creating new profiles
Using Profiles
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WebZIP Task Wizard
The WebZIP Task
Wizard offers the greatest flexibility whilst guiding you step by step, in creating a new
task to download and save a website.
The WebZIP Task Wizard gives you the greatest flexibility when
downloading a website, allowing you to set exactly how you want a download to proceed.
Accessing the Task Wizard:
Button: New Zip File
Menu: File | New WebZIP
The Task wizard first asks for the starting address or URL of the website you wish to
download. From this URL it builds and sets a default Task Name and Zip file name which can
be changed if desired.
Selecting a profile or creating a new one:
A profile defines a download method which WebZIP should follow when downloading and
zipping a website. Profiles are re-useable, and thus make it easy to download different
websites using the same method. WebZIP provides a number of basic profiles to get you
started.
Creating New Profiles:
The default profiles provided by WebZIP are
fine if all you want to do is download a page, a directory, or an entire site, but if you
want greater control over what you download, then you need to create a new profile.
Defining which filetypes to download:
The first thing you're asked to specify when creating a new profile is the filetypes you
wish to download.
How many levels and where from:
WebZIP also gives you great control over exactly where pages and resources (images, sounds
etc.) are downloaded from. You can control how many levels of links are followed from the
start page and can exclude pages or resources found in different sites or directories.
This is very useful when you wish to get everything within a directory or site, and
don’t want a link to the home page, or to another site to start bringing you back a
lot of unrelated and unwanted info.
Filtering your downloads:
You can also prevent links to URL’s containing specific characters, words or phrases
from being downloaded. For example, say a site contains a link to the home page or some
other page such as advertising, on all of its pages, you can prevent these pages from
being downloaded by using this option.
Saving your profile for re-use:
WebZip allows you to save a profile for easy re-use in another task. This can save you a
lot of time, especially when used with WebZIP’s other advanced features, such as
Auto-WebZIP.
If you only wish to use the profile once, it
isn't necessary to save it. All profile information is also stored within a task and thus
a task by itself knows how to download and save a website. |
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