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Blue Crab - 4.9.18

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All Time:	(4.3)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	4.9.18
Release Date:	2009-03-27
License:	Update
Downloads (this version):	2,450
Downloads (all versions):	3,093
Price:	$25.00

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Product Description:

Blue Crab is a versatile program that you use to copy the contents of a web site to your computer, in whole or in part.

Conduct fast offline browsing and searching without an internet connection.
Perform batch downloads of URL's
Create a snapshot of a website for historical archiving.
Collect specific types of resources such as images or email addresses.
Search current content more thoroughly than a search engine right on your own computer.
Check a site for broken links, or generate an HTML sitemap
Create full page images of URL's (JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, PSD, etc.)

With Blue Crab you can download all the content including HTML, PDF, graphics, video, file archives, etc., or use selective filtering to restrict downloads to specific kinds of files. For example, you can choose to save only the JPEG images Blue Crab finds, or just the PDF's.

Blue Crab is always gentle on the server, processing only one URL at a time. (You can even make it pause between successive downloads so as to not overwhelm the server.)

The demo version you download now is fully functionaly and runs for about ten days.

What's new in this version:

Improved the speed of the media grabber by avoiding unnecessary downloads (such as resources of other types or to display images for the slideshow.)
The media grabber slideshow has been extended to work with media types movies and PDFs.
Download progress of redirected urls is now displayed in the media grabber (and all "quicker grabber" windows in general.)
Improved the "completeness" of the media grabber by extending the method of determining media of particular types.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

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Pain in the neck to configure - Version: 4.9.8, 10/28/2008 11:37AM PST

decadence

I own this and SiteSucker.

Blue Crab always gives me trouble.

SiteSucker always gets the website (doesn't get .flv files, but I don't think Blue Crab does either - I'm not likely to find out as Blue Crab usually crashed on me).

Best by Far - Version: 4.9.6, 4/18/2008 03:08PM PST

mac-apples

After trying 3 other programs, only Blue Crab was able to download for off-line viewing of the entire site. It maintained all the links etc Wonderful! It may be a bit unMac-like but that can improve later. It does what it says it will do, that's important!

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Best by Far

Freakin' AWESOME! - Version: 4.9.0, 6/15/2007 02:05PM PST

jchayes369

Not one, not two, but FIVE different page grabbers in one application. One gives you full control and a detailed progress report as it crawls and grabs as much or as little as you want. One does the same thing but has a simplified display. One grabs only the page or two at the url you give it. One grabs images only, displaying them as they are grabbed. The fifth crawls pages or sites from urls in a text document you import, like a list of downloadable files contained in an email. Easy to use. Even does a thorough job of creating a browser-friendly copy of database-driven websites on your Mac. All that "whatever.php" server-side silliness is no problem. Blue Crab has more useful features than any two other similar apps combined. And to top it all, there's a friendly, responsive, knowledgeable person answering your support emails. Blue Crab is a bargain at twice the price.