Some web page downloaders will save a clone of the selected page on your hard drive, others will grab the image files only, or the text. FileScout offers you a different way of extracting and downloading the content of your favorite web pages – it breaks down the page or site into all its text, JavaScript, and media components and let you grab only those files that you’re interested in.
Wrongly referred to as a “web crawler”, FileScout won’t help you look for URLs on the Web (which is what Web crawling is about) but to grab the contents, on a file-by-file basis, using a URL of your choice as a starting point. The “Crawl Page” option will display in seconds every single component present the web page whose URL you used for the search. All text and media files – JS, JPEG, PNG, ICO, PHP, HTML, MPEG, AVI, MOV, and ASF files, among others – will be carefully extracted and listed, giving you the chance to preview them in your favorite browser before downloading them. You can arrange them alphabetically, by extension, URL, and even file size. When first displayed, the files listed come without a file size, but you can tell the program to retrieve and display in bytes the size of the file or files you’re interested in. The so-called “Deep Crawl” option will perform the same operation to all the pages of the site in question, regardless of the URL you use as source. more
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