Version 2.5 Help System

WebSnatcher is an intuitive and efficient Internet mass-downloading application designed to replace the slow and tedious downloading features of standard web-browsers.  It is capable of archiving websites, reindexing local links, selectively downloading files by type or category, or selectively downloading by checking the files you want.

If you're a power web user or would just like to archive all the cool things that you can find on the web, WebSnatcher is the easiest application around to use.

WebSnatcher is the perfect application for web-sites or FTP directories with links to large or numerous files.  Instead of downloading each individual file with a web-browser, you can instruct WebSnatcher to download all at one time the files you're interested in.  WebSnatcher will download these files, in mass, in the background so you can continue working on other applications.

WebSnatcher displays all links in a website in a common tree view similar to Windows Explorer.  You can continue expanding other web page links in the tree view as far as you like and can instruct WebSnatcher to download any files spanning multiple websites and even FTP sites all at one time.

Help with:

• How to use
• Typical workflow example
• User-interface
• Features

For help with WebSnatcher IE for Microsoft Internet Explorer, go here.

WebSnatcher Version Enhancements and Notes:

2.5 Maintenance Release includes:

• Bug fixes
• UI enhancements for Windows XP
• Input Device Support

2.4 Enhancements

• Removal of all restrictions outside of the 3-week trial
• Improved HTML Parser
• Enhancements to the reindexing feature
• UI enhancements

2.3 Enhancements

• Much more responsive UI:  No download will hang the UI, a download can be forcefully terminated
• Full support for website authentication
• You can skip any downloading file and move to the next file
• Snazzy new UI elements:  Quick access to your download folder button, LED byte-count display, right-click to copy a URL to the clipboard, skip button
• Improved parsing:  bug fixes, support for BASE tag
• Downloads sometimes hanging when using file filters fixed
• Minor bug fixes

2.2 Enhancements

• Support for sequenced filenames. Files that already exist will not be overwritten, but rather new files will have numbers appended to them to distinguish them.
• Quick access to Internet Options control panel applet (proxy server info can be managed here)
• Removed banner ads in favor of a 21-day trial
• Minor bug fixes

2.1 Enhancements

• Simple pause/resume of downloads available on right-click menu
• Skip files that are smaller than a certain threshold (expressed in kilobytes)
• Multi-level downloads only download files in the equivalent folder or deeper (no recursing back to the root website)
• Disable automatic scrolling during downloading by grabbing the vertical scroll bar
• Improved redirection support, more reliable downloading, other minor bug fixes

What's new in 2.0:

• A multi-level download dialog which allows WebSnatcher to recurse as many levels as instructed and download the necessary files
• Reindexing, or, updating of internal hyperlinks to reflect the local download folder
• Automatic expansion of web documents as documents are downloaded and parsed
• Ability to change agent name
• Proxy server support, supported through Control Panel (Internet Connection) settings
• Improved right-click menus, more options available
• Improved parsers (more tags recognized, faster)
• Improved FTP view
• Other various small enhancements and bug fixes