Save web pages or entire web sites in Firefox using ScrapBook

Posted on November 25, 2007 at 7:01 pm

Make sure to read other posts from the Firefox Addons series!

Need to save a webpage or website so that you can view it online? Just came across a cool web resource, but have to go somewhere that won’t have an Internet connection? If you’re using Firefox, then there is one Firefox addon that you just simply have to install!

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 addon 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.

You can use ScrapBook for the following purposes:

Save a single Web page
Save snippet or portion of a single Web page
Save an entire Web site
Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks with folders, sub-folders
Full text search and fast filtering search of the entire collection
Editing of the collected Web page
Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera’s Notes

Once installed, you’ll see a new menu item at the top of the Firefox menu bar called ScrapBook:

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 uses up a good amount of space, so make sure you have enough free space on your hard drive. This program is better for downloading an entire website whereas ScrapBook is better for single web pages.

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6 Responses to “Save web pages or entire web sites in Firefox using ScrapBook”

PJ said on : November 26th, 2007 at 7:10 am

Used Scrapbook for a couple of years. Got rid of it prior to Firefox 2.0 because it definitely slowed the browser down; the Scrapbook search tool was extremely lame; Scrapbook organization tools were even worse; and the Scrapbook database is proprietary in the sense that no desktop search tool (Google, Microsoft, Copernic) could search its contents.

Now, just print desired web pages to PDF using PDF Creator; automatically saved to a single folder; and, Copernic automatically indexes for search.

Shashank said on : November 27th, 2007 at 12:51 am

WinHTTrack can be very helpful at times ..i ll soon give it a try… scrapbook doesn’t looks good from what PJ said

geoff campbell said on : August 28th, 2008 at 11:29 am

You can actually download entire websites if you choose the appropriate link depth in your Save As options. It will allow you to save pages that are 1,2, 3 or more links deep within the site. Nice.

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