ScrapBook is an awesome Firefox extension that helps you to save web pages and organize them in a very easy to manage way. The really cool thing about this add-on is that it’s very light, speedy, accurately caches a local copy of a web page almost perfectly and supports multiple languages. I tested it out on several web pages with a lot of graphics and fancy CSS styles and was surprisingly happy to see that the offline version looked exactly the same as the online version. ..
-To keep a record of your life -To document your family history -To capture memories with friends and family ScrapBook is a great way to keep track of your life, your family history, and your memories with friends and family. It’s a great way to document everything in one place! ..
Save a single Web page:
- Save a snippet or portion of a single Web page.
- Save an entire Web site in one go.
- Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks with folders, sub-folders, and full text search and fast filtering search of the entire collection.
- Editing of the collected Web page can be done in text/HTML form resembling Opera’s Notes feature.
Installing ScrapBook
If you’re using Firefox v33, you’ll have to adjust some settings so that you can use ScrapBook properly. By default, the ScrapBook icon won’t show up anywhere, so the only way you can use it is if you right-click on a webpage and choose Customize.
You can exit Customize by clicking on the Exit Customize button.
If you have not changed the settings for the add-on, your website will be saved with the default settings.
Click on the Options button next to the ScrapBook add-on and then click on the ScrapBook tab. Click on the ScrapBook tab and then click on the Add New Page button. Enter a name for your new page and then click on the Add Page button.
To change the keyboard shortcuts, open the Keyboard Preferences and select the “Keyboard” tab. In the “Keyboard Shortcuts” section, you can change the following: -The shortcut to use for opening a new window: Alt+Tab -The shortcut to use for closing a window: Alt+CMD+F5
Using ScrapBook to Download Sites
Next, choose the program you want to use. There are a few different programs available, but ScrapBook is the most popular and well-known. To start using ScrapBook, click on the blue button at the top of the screen. This will take you to a main screen that looks like this: Now, on this main screen, you will see a list of all of the pages that have been downloaded from your website. You can click on any of these pages to start downloading them. The program will automatically start downloading all of these pages and will be ready to use in just a few minutes!
Save Page will let you choose a folder and then automatically save the current page only. If you want more options, which I usually do, then click on the Save Page As option. You’ll get another dialog where you can pick and choose from a whole lot of options.
The important sections are the Options, Download linked files section, and then In-depth Save options. By default, ScrapBook will download images and styles, but you can add JavaScript if a website requires that to work properly.
The Download link section will allow you to download linked files of any type. This is a great option if you are on a website that has a lot of links to different types of files (Word docs, PDFs, etc). You can choose to download all the associated files quickly or just the linked files that you need.
The In-depth Save option is a way to download large portions of a website. By default, it’s set to 0, which means it won’t follow any links to other pages on the site or any other link for that matter. If you choose one, it will download the current page and everything that is linked from that page. Depth of 2 will download from the current page, the 1st linked page and any links from the 1st linked page also.
If you pause ScrapBook right after clicking the Save button, it will only download the content on the current page. This way, you can avoid downloading any ads or other extraneous content. ..
Do you want ads to show up while you’re browsing the site offline? This will waste a lot of time and bandwidth, so the best thing to do is to press Pause and then click on the Filter button. ..
The two best options for filtering content are Restrict to Domain and Restrict to Directory. Normally these are the same, but on certain sites they will be different. If you know exactly what pages you want, you can even filter by string and type in your own URL. This option is fabulous because it gets rid of all the other junk and only downloads content from the actual website you’re on rather than from social media sites, ad networks, etc. ..
Start downloading the pages now, depending on your Internet connection speed and how much of the website you are downloading. The add-on works great for most sites and I have only had one issue where I could not download a page from a site because their URL used an absolute URL. ..
The Firefox download directory is a bit of a pain to use, but it’s better than nothing.
In Explorer, sort by Type and then scroll down to the files called HTML Document. The content pages are normally the default_00x files, not the index_00x files.
If you’re not using Firefox and still want to download webpages to your computer, you can also check out a software called WinHTTrack that will automatically download an entire web site for later browsing offline. However, WinHTTrack can use up a lot of space, so make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive.
Both programs are great for downloading entire websites or for downloading single webpages. In practice, downloading an entire website is almost impossible because of the massive number of links that are generated by CMS software like WordPress, etc. If you have any questions, post a comment. Enjoy!
