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Needed: Tool to capture and save the contents of websites



I am posting this for Janet Linde.  Please respond directly to her.


> My organization is in the market for a good product that can capture and
> save the contents of web sites.  Our needs are somewhat unusual: We need
> to be able to capture single pages (rather than entire sites, but
> including frames and including all required images) from an arbitrarily
> long (potentially ~5000 sites) list.  The captured material will need to
> be transferred to CD-ROM in order to make the pages accessible as trial
> evidence.
>
> We have tested one free program, with little success, finding that frames
> and Javascript can at least sometimes cause the program to fail to capture
> all content necessary to display a page. Even pages that don't obviously
> have either of these features sometimes don't capture properly, and
> sometimes all images required by a page are not captured. Also, sometimes
> extra HTML pages are captured.
>
> If any of you know of a firm that produces such a product, or another
> project or person that has used (and could recommend!) such a product, it
> would be much appreciated.  Please forward any answers to me directly at
> jlinde@aclu.org
>
> Thank you.
> Janet Linde
> Archivist and Records Manager
> American Civil Liberties Union
> 125 Broad Street
> 18th Floor
> New York, NY  10004
> 212/549-2509
> Fax:  212/549-2650
> jlinde@aclu.org

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