Download text from website
Thread poster: Paul Sinfield
Paul Sinfield
Paul Sinfield  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
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French to English
Oct 16, 2009

Hi all

Does anyone know of any (preferably free!) tools out there for quickly downloading all text from a website? I have a translation job on and such a tool would really save time. I appreciate that the effectiveness of the tool may well depend on how the site is built but it's worth a go!

Many thanks

Paul


 
Samuel Murray
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Offline browser Oct 16, 2009

Paul Sinfield wrote:
Does anyone know of any (preferably free!) tools out there for quickly downloading all text from a website?


The program you need is called an offline browser (for some weird reason). Google for "offline browser" to see a few of them. Here is one of them that I've used in the past: http://www.httrack.com/

Also see here:
http://www.proz.com/forum/software_applications/132076-software_used_to_extract_html_files_from_websites.html


 
Gerard de Noord
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HTTrack Oct 16, 2009

Hi Paul,

HTTrack does what you want. You can download it for free at:
http://www.httrack.com/

The eternal caveat is that the HTML pages you dowload can very well have been created on the fly. You can only calculate a quote and translate dynamic websites when you receive all necessary files from from the webmaster.

Regards,
Gerard


 
Paul Sinfield
Paul Sinfield  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:33
French to English
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Thanks all Oct 16, 2009

Many thanks for the suggestions. Will give it a try although I think the site has secured content as well which I doubt will download without full access. Guess I'll have to get on to the webmaster as you suggest.

Dankie / Bedankt

Paul


 
Hynek Palatin
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Czech Republic
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Ask the client Oct 16, 2009

Paul,

You should ask your client for the source HTML files. That way there will be no misunderstanding as to what should be translated. Downloading the files could be considered an extra service, but there is a risk of missing something or maybe translating too much.

If you download the files yourself, have your client confirm that this is exactly what they want to be translated.

Hynek


 
Michael Beijer
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United Kingdom
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I just found out about Omni-Crawler... Apr 25, 2018

See: https://www.omni-lookup.de/

Haven't tried it myself, but it's from the developer of Omni-Lookup (formerly known as Multifultor).

Michael


 


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