Typical Workflow Examples

There are various ways to use WebSnatcher.  Here are some sample scenarios:

1)  Archiving a website

  1. The user types in (or uses the "Favorites Menu") a URL that he wants to download into the URL Edit Box and clicks "Go/Refresh", which instructs WebSnatcher to download the URL, parse it's dependencies, and display them in the Web Page Tree View.
  2. The user right-clicks on either the root web document, or one of it's dependency web documents, right-clicks and selects "Download <file>...".
  3. The user is then presented with the multi-level download dialog box where he can select 1) How many levels to download, 2) Whether to generate subfolders and reindex the files 3) File type filters, and 4) File size filters.  In this case, the user would most likely choose "Download entire site", "Generate subfolders", "Reindex files", and use no file filters.
  4. The user then presses "OK" and WebSnatcher starts downloading the website, parsing, expanding, and updating the tree as necessary.

2)  Download every file of a given type or extension on a website (example:  download every image on a website, or download every mp3 file)

  1. The user types in (or uses the "Favorites Menu") a URL that he wants to download into the URL Edit Box and clicks "Go/Refresh", which instructs WebSnatcher to download the URL, parse it's dependencies, and display them in the Web Page Tree View.
  2. The user right-clicks on either the root web document, or one of it's dependency documents, right-clicks and selects "Download <file>...".
  3. The user is presented with the multi-level download dialog box.  Assuming the user wants to download jpg files, the user would typically select "Dowload entire site" and set up a filter to only download jpg image files. 
  4. The user then presses "OK" and WebSnatcher starts downloading the website, parsing, expanding, and updating the tree as necessary.

3)  Here is a typical example of how to use the checkboxes in WebSnatcher (this was the only workflow available in version 1.x).  This is most useful for very specific automated downloads:

  1. The user types in (or uses the "Favorites Menu") a URL that he wants to download into the URL Edit Box.
  2. The user then clicks "Go/Refresh", which instructs WebSnatcher to download the URL, parse it's dependencies, and display them in the Web Page Tree View.
  3. The user then identifies the file he wants to download, checks them using the mouse, expands website dependencies as necessary, then right-clicks int the web tree and chooses the "Download Checked Items".
  4. WebSnatcher goes to work.  The user is done!