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Blue Crab - 4.9.0

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All Time:	(4.3)
Version 4.9.0:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	4.9.0
Release Date:	2007-05-31
License:	Update
Downloads (version 4.9.0):	1,131
Downloads (all versions):	3,200
Price:	$25.00

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Product Description:

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

Conduct fast offline browsing and searching without an internet connection.
Create a snapshot of a website for historical archiving.
Collect specific types of resources such as images.
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

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:

Bug fix: Fixed a problem which could cause Blue Crab to crash when checking for software updates or using one of the "quicker" grabbers. (Memory in use was being released too soon.)
Blue Crab will now automatically redirect the starting URL, if needed, and start the crawl with the redirected URL.

Operating System Requirements:

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

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above.

Feedback Summary:

Version 4.9.0:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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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.