Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Tools for pre-downloading webpages for offline reading

What is the convenient way to read webpages offline? Simply saving the webpage as PDF is not good enough because often there is a need to follow a link for more information from the main webpage. So, here is a list tools that can be used to pre-download webpages for reading them offline.
http://scraping.pro/what-is-web-scraping/

1. Wget, can be easily automated customized. Here's the wget's man page.
2. Pocket, Instapaper, Readability. They have been compared in online reviews: 1, 2, 3.
3. HTTrack is a tool that can grab a webpage and the links in that page.

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