Jun 16, 2011 With SiteSucker 2.1, you can now save all the information about a download in a document. This allows you to create a document that you can use to perform the same download whenever you want. If SiteSucker is in the middle of a download when you choose the Save command, SiteSucker will pause the download and save its status with the document. SiteSucker can download files unmodified, or it can 'localize' the files it downloads, allowing you to browse a site off-line. Version 4.1.4: Displayed regular expression metacharacters in red in patterns and templates. Fixed a bug that could cause SiteSucker to crash trying to display the 'Failed to write data' alert.
For releases prior to macOS 10.4 Tiger: SiteSucker 1.6.9; All versions of SiteSucker prior to version 2.5 are available from the Version History page. SiteSucker Pro SiteSucker Pro is an enhanced version of SiteSucker that can download embedded videos, including embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos.
Description
SiteSucker is a Macintosh application that automatically downloads websites from the Internet. It does this by asynchronously copying the site's webpages, images, PDFs, style sheets, and other files to your local hard drive, duplicating the site's directory structure. Just enter a URL (Uniform Resource Locator), press return, and SiteSucker can download an entire website.
SiteSucker can be used to make local copies of websites. By default, SiteSucker 'localizes' the files it downloads, allowing you to browse a site offline, but it can also download sites without modification.
You can save all the information about a download in a document. This allows you to create a document that you can use to perform the same download whenever you want. If SiteSucker is in the middle of a download when you choose the Save command, SiteSucker will pause the download and save its status with the document. When you open the document later, you can restart the download from where it left off by pressing the Resume button.
Requirements
The current version of SiteSucker is a universal app built to run on Macintosh computers with Intel or Apple silicon processors. It requires macOS 11 Big Sur or greater. Of course, to download files, your computer will also need an Internet connection.
Available Languages
Users from around the world have translated SiteSucker from English into other languages. Currently, SiteSucker can be viewed in the following languages:
- English
- French — Translation by Jean-Pierre Kuypers
- German — Translation by Christoph Schmitz
- Italian — Translation by Massimo Ruffinengo
- Portuguese — Translation by Paulo Neto
- Spanish — Translation by Borja Santos-Diez Vázquez
Getting SiteSucker
Click on the image below to get the latest version of SiteSucker from the Mac App Store.
The current version of SiteSucker is 4.1.4.
For earlier operating systems, the following versions of SiteSucker are available:
- For macOS 10.9 Mavericks or greater: SiteSucker 2.4.6
- For macOS 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion, or 10.8 Mountain Lion: SiteSucker 2.3.6
- For macOS 10.5 Leopard: SiteSucker 2.3.3
- For macOS 10.4 Tiger: SiteSucker 2.2.4
- For releases prior to macOS 10.4 Tiger: SiteSucker 1.6.9
All versions of SiteSucker prior to version 2.5 are available from the Version History page.
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SiteSucker Pro
SiteSucker Pro is an enhanced version of SiteSucker that can download embedded videos, including embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos. You can try SiteSucker Pro for up to 14 days before you buy it. During that period, the application is fully functional except that you can download no more than 100 files at a time. You can purchase SiteSucker Pro from the Registration dialog within the app. The End User License Agreement specifies the rights and restrictions which apply to the use of SiteSucker Pro.
The current version of SiteSucker Pro is 4.1.5. Fundy designer 1 9 34 – professional album design software.
For earlier operating systems, the following version of SiteSucker Pro is available:
- For macOS 10.14 Mojave or greater: SiteSucker Pro 3.2.7
To download a disk image containing the latest version of SiteSucker Pro, click on the button below.
Support
SiteSucker help references online manuals that explain all of its features. You can access the manual for the current version of SiteSucker by clicking on one of the links below:
- English: SiteSucker Manual for macOS
- French: Manuel SiteSucker pour macOS
- Portuguese: Manual do SiteSucker para macOS
Email support is provided by the author: Rick Cranisky .
Send in your feature requests, bug reports, user interface gripes, or anything else you have to say about SiteSucker. If you are having problems downloading a site, please provide the site's URL in your email message and some indication of your SiteSucker settings.
I had followed with great interest the discussion on the Reclaim Hosting Community site about archiving a dynamic, database driven site as static HTML files. I share Alan Levine's passion for trying to archive as much of the work I've done online as possible, I'm just not nearly as good at it. That said, today I had an occasion to use the Mac tool SiteSuckerTim Owens has been raving about for a while. The app costs $4.99 and takes any URL and packages up the entire site (including images and media) into local static HTML files.
I finally decided to try it when I was migrating a website built with another host's custom webpage builder. There was no export tool (why you gotta be like that?) and I was not going to copy and paste scores of HTML pages. I was prepared to tell the Reclaimer the migration was a no-go, but then I remembered SiteSucker. Given this was a custom web tool and they're planning on building a new site after the move, why not simply package it up with SiteSucker which will provide them an interim home as well as an archive?
So, I did. And it was as awesome as Tim promised. I just added the URL as illustrated above and 3 minutes later the entire site was downloaded as static HTML pages. I uploaded the entire archive to their Reclaim Hosting account and pointed the domain at our nameservers and that was that. Crazy how simple that was, it makes me want to start working my way through a bunch of old WordPress sites I have and start retiring them to HTML.
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I don't pay for that many applications, but this is one that was very much worth the $5 for me. I can see more than a few uses for my own sites, not to mention the many others I help support. And to reinforce that point, right after I finished sucking this site, a faculty member submitted a support ticket asking the best way to archive a specific moment of a site so that they could compare it with future iterations. One option is cloning a site in Installatron on Reclaim Hosting, but that requires a dynamic database for a static copy, why not just suck that site? And while cloning a site using Installatron is cheaper and easier given it's built into Reclaim offerings, it's not all that sustainable for us or them. All those database driven sites need to be updated, maintained, and protected from hackers and spam. Something like SiteSucker makes a lot more sense than cloning a site for helping folks archive their work so that it can be accessible for the long term, and building that feature into Reclaim Hosting's services would be pretty cool.
