A few software programs I am looking for.

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I am looking for some software applications. The first is a good web scraper, a program to download website for reading offline for air gaped computers. I was thinking Steve might have suggested a program in the past, but I could not find it quickly on the GRC search. Second, I am looking for software that will let me use a stylus of a tablet to mark up PDFs and other documents. For that I found a free program called Xournal++ which seems to work quite well and I found a paid program called PDF Annotator that looks like it might work, but have not tried on the tablet yet. Any paid programs must be perpetual and work on air gaped systems. Thanks!

Chad
 
Web spiders (or website copiers) used to be more talked about than they appear to be these days. I suspect, for many sites, with the crazy level of Javascript in use, it got more and more difficult to properly backup a site. I used to use HTTrack in the past with great success.
 
I found a recommendation for WebCopy from the great one in 2021: Security Now! #825- 06-29-21 - Halfway through 2021

Anyway, a couple days ago I just thought, you know, I have to copy this site just in case it ever actually goes away forever. What I used is my favorite now go-to website copy tool that again, I just wanted to tell everybody about. I made it this week's GRC shortcut. So you can get to it with grc.sc/825, grc.sc/825. It's Cyotek WebCopy. It's complete free. I like this company. They seem to be good guys. It's donation ware. If you like it, give them some money. They've been maintaining it for a while. This is one of several things they offer.

Also in: FYI My Favorite Utilities, Gadgets & Services #10
 
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