OmniWeb equiv of IE's "Web Archive" feature?

simX

simX

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The title says it all.

I absolutely LOVE Internet Explorer's feature of being able to download all the images on a page and assembling it into one file that I can view later, without needing an internet connection or worrying that anything has changed.

Is there an OmniWeb equivalent?
 
I don't think there is an OmniWeb equivalent. You have to admit, as much as one may like alternative browsers like Mozilla, iCab, OmniWeb, etc.... IE is STILL the browser with the most extra features.

If it's any consolation... Mozilla will save a page as well as all it's elements in one folder... granted, it's no "Web Archive," but it's close.
 
iCab will do this vey nicely.
So do a few other applications that are dedicated to this task.
Check Version Tracker.
 
OmniWeb used to have this feature, and it would save everything in a bundle called webpage.htmld. I was looking for this feature yesterday so I can write an AppleScript that pulls all the comics, national and local news, and weather together for me every morning and combines it all onto one page. Not finding that, I'm using wget. As someone mentioned, there are other programs that can do this, but if you want a GUI, there are a ton here on Version Tracker.

Anyway, to get get the comic Get Fuzzy, for example, one can do (in a new folder, or this'll be messy)

wget -E -H -k -K -nH -nd --wait=4 --random-wait -p http://www.comics.com/comics/getfuzzy/index.html

A man wget tells what all these do, but basically it gets the link and all the inline images and objects, and converts all the links to refer to local pages. It even pulls all of these with a random wait from 0 to 4 seconds, so www.comics.com doesn't get overloaded and also so they don't become overly suspicious (since I'm pulling the whole page, I don't see why they would.)

Anyway, this is one way you can grab archives without resorting to IE.
 
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