How to Save a Website for Offline Reading

Browser bookmarks die when a site goes down, and 'Save page as' only captures one broken page. To truly read a site offline you need a crawler that saves every page with its assets and fixes the links between them.

Export the full site

Run the site through HTTrack Online at full depth. All linked pages are downloaded along with images, fonts, CSS and scripts.

Unzip the archive

The ZIP mirrors the site's structure: one folder per page with a page.html inside, plus an assets folder. Everything is linked with relative paths.

Browse locally

Open the root page.html in any browser. Navigation between pages works offline because internal links were rewritten during the export.

The offline copy is fully portable: sync it to a laptop, a USB stick or a NAS. It will render identically in ten years because it depends on nothing but the files in the folder.

Ready to download a website?

Paste a URL on the homepage tool and get a ZIP in about a minute.

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