SiteSucker for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Picklepop

  SiteSucker can be DANGEROUS!!!

  I had to put my first download on "pause" because the "remaining" number kept getting higher and higher with no clue as to how long its growth would continue (When my computer was destroyed?) I have written to the seller--twice--but have not yet received any reply, so here's my final complaint. Whoops! There are instructions. I just found them. Too bad I didn't see them before I started doing my first download. I had to put it on "pause" because I was becoming very concerned that it was leading to the burnout of my computer. Well, now I'll print a User Guide for myself. After studying it, I'll go back to my first project. My question now is whether there is some kind of preview of things to come, like : Do I have enough memory for the job, or how much storage is required, or how long the download will take. You know, things like that. I'll be restarring it when I learn how to use it in safety, safety for my computeer that is.

  
  
• By markkulacz

  Interface needs improvements, but a MUST HAVE utility

  As a citizen journalist and researcher, this tool is indispensible. Sometimes we enounter a treasure chest of PDFs, and this tool makes it remarkably fast to collect all of them. At other times, we want to save our own websites because hosting businesses may delete them. There is no match to SiteSucker - I promote it all the time on Twitter. I do with the tool was a bit more intuitive with respect to selecting which links to follow, nesting levels, and other advanced topics, but one step at a time. I am very thankful for the development of this tool, and reccomend this tool to all the people I work with.

  
  
• By igeek207

  Saved A Legacy

  Use this software in hopes of saving a friend’s life work. A friend of mine had created an online classroom with different lessons pulling links from different storage sites and backups. This project would have been a complete nightmare had it not of been for SiteSucker. We even tried other resources and non could get past the password login screen. With site sucker there is actually a built in browser that allows you to load the site and login using your credentials and then site sucker can do it’s magic. The seller is extremely responsive and very helpful. When I was stuck trying to download the site and was getting errors in site sucker, Rich emailed me back what the issues were and on top of that, created a custom site sucker profile that I could use to download the site without errors. It’s very uncommon to find that level of communication and stellar customer service in this day and age. Thank you again Rich for such an amazing piece of software.

  
  
• By NervePangs

  Does what it says

  The new update works for me on Mountain Lion 10.8.2 without any of the issues other reviewers have posted. I'm actually quite grateful to the developer; I owned a previous version that did not allow downloads of any pages that required a login or registration (such as a bulletin board or forum, which can be quite helpful if you rely on the advice of forum members to fix British cars or French sailboats away from a wifi connection. ;) After a brief email requesting the feature, he replied that he was working on it, and would release it "soon". The latest version now allows forums to be downloaded to your local drive for offline viewing. I couldn't be happier. - Some features are buried a bit in the application, and aren't necessarily easy to understand without experimenting, but overall the app works quite well for me.

  
  
• By MacSteve in CO

  Underwhelming

  My goal was to be able to download 2-3 levels of a website to use as a reference when internet connectivity or mobile devices were unsuitable or unavailable. Although SiteSucker pulled hundreds of files, it created an unintelligible mix of folders and files that could not be properly reviewed in a browser or via any other mechanism. Images were no longer embedded in any of the html files. Despite downloading with the default "localize" option, there was no usable html website representation that would allow me to use this properly (as might have been done years ago with Acrobat Pro). Overall, if all you want it to download the underlying files, the program works. If you want to be able to use it in html format as if the website was live - it doesn't seem to support that. The help topic and FAQ did not reveal a mechanismm to move forward.

  
  

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