I needed to secure a copy of an old blog site before we started redeveloping it. I’d always assumed that in Mac Safari there was an option to not only download a page but also all the attached pages but there isn’t. I couldn’t believe it and so googled it and found that sure enough Safari doesn’t support downloading an entire site.
I was sure that someone else must have already solved this problem so I looked around the Mac App Store. I couldn’t find anything that would do this initially. Then I came across an App called Kiosk Monster. This is designed to download a website to your Mac Laptop so that you can take it to trade shows / opens days etc and run it in kiosk mode. That means that it’s secured or locked down so that people can click around the website you’ve downloaded but they can’t go to other websites or indeed start messing about with your Mac. That’s actually really useful and I’m sure I’ll use it from time to time but the added bonus is that to achieve this the app does download the entire site to your Mac.
- Navigate to the location where you want the files to be stored. Click the Select button. Click the Close button to exit Preferences. To download a specific image that appears on a web page, move your pointer over the image, right-click, and choose Save Image As from the pop-up menu that appears.
- Below this, add Get Image URLs From WebPage and then, set the Get URLs of Images dropdown to ‘On These Web Pages’. Now add download URLs to the bottom of the workflow and set a location you want all downloads to appear. Once done, open the webpage you want to download images from in Safari and run this workflow in this Automator app on Mac.
- In the Safari app on your Mac, go to the page you want to bookmark. Click the Share button in the toolbar, then choose Add Bookmark. Choose where to add the bookmark, and rename it if you like. Add this page to: Click the pop-up menu and choose a folder. The default is Favorites.
- In the Safari app on your Mac, drag the link to a document or the desktop, or Control-click the link and choose Add Link to Bookmarks or Add Link to Reading List. Save an entire webpage In the Safari app on your Mac, choose File Save As.
- If you're on a desktop computer, saving a web page is dead simple. Just open up your browser, navigate to the page, and go to File Save Page As. Save it as 'Web Page, Complete' somewhere in your.
- Download the Microsoft Translator app here. Open the webpage you want to translate in Safari and tap on the Share button at the bottom. Scroll down and you should see Translator.
Do you ever need to download an entire website to your Mac? May be you want to have the website on your laptop to demo incase you can't get a wifi connection. Maybe you just want to secure a copy of a website at a certain stage in its development before you or someone else starts making a lot of changes. Whatever the reason I explain how to download a whole website in this blog.
It wasn’t obvious to start with whereabouts the app was storing the downloaded site. With a little research I discovered that for each site it downloads it creates a new directory in ~LibraryApplication SupportKioskMonster so from there you can backup or copy the website to wherever you want to store it.
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I highly recommend this app, at £4.99 it solved an immediate problem and I’m sure I’ll be using this a lot in the future. Click here to view it in the Mac App Store.
If you have any questions or alternative suggestions for doing this type of work do please get in touch.
Safari User Guide
You can save an entire webpage, including all its graphics and links, or just parts of it.
Save text from a webpage
In the Safari app on your Mac, drag selected text to a document or the desktop.
Save an image from a webpage
In the Safari app on your Mac, Control-click the image.
Choose Save Image to “Downloads,” Save Image As, or Add Image to Photos.
Some images, such as background images, can’t be saved.
Tip: With some images, you can drag the image directly to a document or your desktop.
Save a link from a webpage
In the Safari app on your Mac, drag the link to a document or the desktop, or Control-click the link and choose Add Link to Bookmarks or Add Link to Reading List.
Save an entire webpage
In the Safari app on your Mac, choose File > Save As.
Choose Format > Web Archive or Format > Page Source.
Web archive: Saves all graphics, and links work as long as the destination webpages are available. Web archives are useful for temporary pages, such as receipts.
Page source: Saves only the HTML source code. This is useful if you want to use the HTML source in a webpage of your own.
Note: Some webpages may prevent you from saving items that appear on the page.
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