| Download entire web sites or specific resources from the web. Render dynamic sites to static pages.
Introduction
While many bots around are focused on page indexing, Arale is primarly designed for personal use. It fits the needs of advanced web surfers and web developers.
With Arale you can download entire web sites or specific resources from the web. Some real life cases are:
want to download only images, videos, mp3 or zip files from a site.
manuals, articles, ebooks fragmented in many files to discourage download.
user-unfriendly sites. Popups, banners and tricky javascripts annoying you before you can download a resource.
Multithreaded means that Arale can download more than one file simultaneously. Arale can easily saturate your bandwith, thus providing the fastest possible download speed for your internet connection.
If you're developing dynamic sites using technologies such as JSP, PHP, ASP or whatever, you may be interested in rendering dynamic pages to static files.
Arale supports URL renaming: query string is encoded in the static filename and .html extension is appended.
let's make an example:
original URL: mypage.jsp!myparam=myvalue.html
static filename: mypage.jsp!myparam=myvalue.html
Existing links to renamed URLs are substituted with modified links. This preserves navigation among static files.
Once a dynamic site is trasformed into a set of static files it can be deployed on a server that does not support dynamic pages. For example you may deploy a JSP site in a free web space.
Currently Arale is a command-line tool. It would be nice to develop a GUI for it. I'd like to have some feedback from users, so if you think it's worth send me an email and tell me what you think. ;)
Features
[+] Download and scan user-defined file types.
[+] Rename dynamic resources. Encode query strings into filenames.
[+] Set the number of simultaneous connections.
[+] Options for minimum and maximum file size.
[+] Domain depth support.
[+] Arale is Open Source.
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