Comparison of software saving Web pages for offline use

A number of proprietary software products are available for saving Web pages for later use offline. They vary in terms of the techniques used for saving,
what types of content can be saved, the format and compression of the saved files, provision for working with already saved content, and in other ways.

HTML Content
Navigable
Ease of
Support between Format of saved
Completeness of adding to
Name Technology for saved files; Compression Notes
saved content existing
collections pages in open/proprietary
collections
offline

images and CSS

(if -p option is
Yes, if -k
command line used), but no Open (HTML or Yes, if WARC
wget Yes ? option is
application client-side WARC) files are used
used
generated HTML
content

Yes. Links
command line all remade
application has so open Open. Standard
WinHTTrack for your HTML pages
Windows and locally saved in a folder. Many options to let you
HTTrack ? ? ? No
WebHTTrack stored Click on refine what you save.
for pages for index.html to
Linux/BSD/Unix the site open home page
GUI front-ends you
download
multimedia
(except streaming
windows
files), CSS, Open. Standard
desktop
limited support for HTML pages
application and
Tenmax's javascript events saved in a folder. supports advanced filtering
scriptable tools ? ? Yes No
Teleport and cookies; Click on options and authentication
for web
shockwave/flash index.html to
crawling and
content is open home page
archiving
downloaded but
not crawled

Yes IF
Proprietary
those
catalog; regular
Firefox See pages
ScrapBook
extension note[ScrapBook 1][1]
Yes Easy
were
HTML and No See note[ScrapBook 2]
content for each
saved in
page
scrapbook

Images, CSS and

other static The Mozilla Archive Format
Mozilla content; MAFF (=ZIP of add-on is no longer
Firefox
Archive clientside- Yes Impossible No regular HTML and Always maintained since
extension
Format generated HTML web content)
content saved September 5, 2018.[2]
fine
Stylesheets are Proprietary;
Read Later Google Chrome saved restricted to
No N/A No No
Fast extension incompletely or Google Chrome
not at all profile location

Video and audio Open; regular

Yes
Google Chrome files (via Flash or HTML for pages, Yes for
PageArchiver Yes (import/export No
extension HTML5) are not regular zip file for catalog
features)
saved catalog

Archia's Web
E-mail based
Page
on-line service See note[Archia 1] No No No Open Yes
Archiver[3]

See also
Comparison of web annotation systems
Offline reader
 Progressive web application

Notes

ScrapBook
1. Saved content:
Default:
images, CSS and other static content; clientside-generated HTML content—all saved fine
Optionally:
sound (MP3, WAV, RAM, WMA)
video (MPG, AVI, MOV, WMV)
archives (ZIP, LZH, RAR, JAR, XPI)
java - but can be problematic
custom document extensions (e.g. PDF)
2. Extra features:
Search across collections
Known issues:
saved pages embedding TED.com presentations (incl. pages on TED.com) cannot be played even when online
selecting a piece of page will save only selected piece — inconvenient when you change page title with a quote from the page
doesn't work with Firefox Quantum at the moment

Archia
1. Saved content:
Images, CSS and other static content, sound (MP3, WAV, RAM, WMA), video (MPG, AVI, MOV, WMV), archives (ZIP, LZH, RAR, JAR,
XPI), custom document extensions (e.g. PDF)

Video
To save video embedded on web sites (e.g. YouTube), there are video download extensions for Firefox (including Download Helper) and Chrome.

References
1. Zhang, Gary. "Best Ways to Save Webpage for Offline Viewing (#3 is Awesome!)" (https://www.osjoy.com/save-webpage-as-pdf-jpeg-d
oc.html). Garyzzc. Retrieved 2019-01-03.
2. "Documentation" (http://maf.mozdev.org/documentation.html). mozdev.org. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
3. "Archia: Web Page Archiver" (https://web.archive.org/web/20150219113506/http://www.archia.net/). Archived from the original (http://w
ww.archia.net/) on 2015-02-19. Retrieved 2015-02-19.

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