an offline browser that downloads as I browse?

[baskins]

hi,

i'm looking to download a specific bunch of threads on a forum..

saving them individually would take too long.. but I could click through them.

I am not sure if there is any browser which saves web material as neatly as say wget does. I suppose it doesn't have to be that neat, but neat enough that the threads from the website forum are in one directory, and I can open them and read them offline

 

[lxskllr]

I have no idea, but I'd suggest searching for a Firefox addon. If it could be done, that's probably the place to look.

 

[gitano]

its not what you are asking for but.. maybe can use a web vampire type app for that, like
HTTrack http://www.httrack.com/

those type apps where lot popular in the dial-up times

 

[0roo0roo]

that would be nice. esp for google reader rss feeds.

 

[baskins]

All the suggestions are useful.. as things to bear in mind..

I may look into some of them.. when I get the time..

I have recently used forum pilot , and it's good enough..it did the job.
http://forumpilot.com/
it's not ideal in that it doesn't seem to put it in offline website form. But at least it saves the stuff. It gets saved in one file, readable with that program.
It also has features like logging in through it, or giving it the user/pass, so you're not as Guest. (Some forum administrators have non-public sections for a group of users or for higher ranking users, so that feature is useful there)
It is a strangely designed program since it doesn't let you open the file.. But maybe if the file is in a set directory you can get into it. There is an option to create portable version.. That creates a copy of the program, with that file, so you can read it.
So that could be zipped up.

You can choose which sections to download.. So just download one and not others.

Getting that sorted out with a generic offline browser program / wget or slightly better type program , would probably be very tricky..


@gittano
I remember.. it came out in the dial-up days.. I used Web Whacker around 2000. (around the days of iomega zip drives!)
Lo and Behold
http://www.bluesquirrel.com/products/webwhacker/
"WebWhacker, the first offline browser ever developed"


@0roo
out of interest, what do you mean?
are you talking of a forum that has RSS feeds,, What do you want to do with them? and what does that have to do with google reader specifically? surely would apply to any RSS Reader?

 

[baskins]

All the suggestions are useful..
I may look into some of them when time..

I have recently used forum pilot , and it's good enough..it did the job.
http://forumpilot.com/
it's not ideal in that it doesn't seem to put it in offline website form. But at least it saves the stuff. It gets saved in one file, readable with that program.
It also has features like logging in through it, or giving it the user/pass, so you're not as Guest. (Some forum administrators have non-public sections for a group of users or for higher ranking users, so that feature is useful there)
It is a strangely designed program since it doesn't let you open the file.. But maybe if the file is in a set directory you can get into it. There is an option to create portable version.. That creates a copy of the program, with that file, so you can read it.
So that could be zipped up.

You can choose which sections to download..

Getting that sorted out with a generic offline browser program / wget or slightly better type program , would probably be very tricky..

- Gitano, I remember using Web Whacker around the year 2000 - apparently it was the first offline browser
-O00 , Out of interest, What do you mean about the RSS , and downloading a forum? Some What is the feature you think would be useful for a Web RSS Reader?