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Free site rippers

Free site rippers

Monday July 30, 2018,

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Darcy Ripper is one of the best free site ripper tools on the internet. It allows you to rip or download the entire or partial site instantly. You can then save the web documents to your hard drive for offline browsing. 

Darcy Ripper has three essential site ripping structures: hierarchies, webs and sequences, and the tool is used to scrape data from a site. Darcy Ripper is the prior choice for webmasters and rips all types of sites in no time. 

You can use this program on a regular basis and can accomplish multiple site ripping tasks at a time. There are two types of learning modes – Advanced Mode and Wizard Mode. Darcy Ripper's point-and-click UI allows you to grab all the text from a site for free, and you can download the entire web content and can store it in TXT, Excel or HTML format.

General features of Darcy Ripper:

As a free site ripper, Darcy Ripper is configurable, and you can control what happens to your downloaded or ripped data. You can also specify the multiple hosts on which your job should be run. Darcy Ripper has an interactive graphic interface and allows you to rip data in real-time. 

Plus, it supports both HTTP and HTTPS files and comes with a proxy server to ease your work. The number of connections per server and the bandwidth limitation depends on the HTTP response code.

In addition to Darcy Ripper, HTTrack and Cyotek WebCopy are two interactive and free site ripper tools.

1. HTTrack:

As a free site ripper service, HTTrack is best known for its user-friendly interface and makes it easy for you to download or rip the entire website. You can get started with its Wizard mode and can rip as many web pages as you want. With HTTrack, you can easily rip text, images and media files without compromising on quality. It is mainly used to target directories, yellow pages, discussion forums and dynamic web pages.

2. Cyotek WebCopy:

Just like HTTrack, Cyotek WebCopy is a free site ripper service that allows you to rip the partial or full website. You can download different web documents to your hard drive for offline reading. This tool primarily scans the specified web pages before ripping its content and uses an auto-remap to target both internet and external links. You can customize this service according to your requirements and can exclude some parts of a site that aren't beneficial to your business.

Conclusion:

No doubt, Darcy Ripper is as powerful as HTTrack and Cyotek WebCopy. It is a relatively new site ripper service but possesses various characteristics. In fact, all these free site ripper tools have their own pros and cons, and it is difficult to name the best option. However, HTTrack is around for quite some time and is the prior choice for web developers, programmers, and webmasters. On the other hand, Darcy Ripper will definitely take some time to win the hearts of all businessmen.