Downloading a list of URLs - How?

TommyK

Hello Everybody,

I hope this is the most appropriate place to post this. I've looked through other Forums and this seems like the closest match so here goes. . .

I have a piece of software that lets me input a single URL and it will download it for browsing offline (all the publically available stuff, that is).

However, when doing research for writing and other things, I usually have a loooooong list of pages to visit and, since I am limited to a slow dial-up, it takes an extraordinary amount of time to visit each.

It would be so much faster to be able to paste a list into a program and have it automatically download each one in sequence.

Is there such a thing available? (Preferaly free or low cost or, at least available as shareware before buying).

Thank you for any help.

Best regards,
Tommy.

naitkris

Getleft 1.1.1 from http://personal1.iddeo.es/andresgarci/getleft/english/index.html and WinHTTrack 3.30 from http://www.httrack.com/ are both licensed under the GPL and are free software to download web pages to be viewed online.

For shareware alternatives, try visiting http://www.webattack.com/shareware/downloader/swoffline.html which lists various alternatives, some of which may be better suited to what you need in terms of inputting a list of URLs as I do not know if the two free solutions mentioned above support that.

MrPinK

It's pretty easy to do in unix with wget, you just 'wget -i filename' and it will download all the URL's listed in the file.

There is a version of wget for windows but I've never used it. I presume it would work just as well as it does in unix though, and it would be free. Try google it, or someone else may be able to give you a link for it.

TommyK

Some of those shareware programs look like just the ticket!

I appreciate the pointers! - Thank you.

Tommy.

oneweb

Also consider HTTPWeazel, shareware but you can filter by size/filetype etc.