Download tools

Recently, I mainly focus on downloading news from www.people.com (people daily?). We need a lot of news material to work for our research. I tried many download tools before. Last year, when I downloaded news from CCTV, the main tools is Thunder5. And this time I tried webzip and offline explorer.

Thunder5

We are very familiar with it. We can download songs, movies, picture and so on. Another useful function you may omit is that it can be download from the task list. Therefore, I could write all of the address  in one link.lst and let it work for me. But it is a little complex compared with webzip and offline explorer because it's not the professional tool to download website, I have to find out all of page links . Still, it's a good helper for us to get our entertainments.

Webzip

In fact, I was frustrated because I feel webzip is not so convenience as it discribed. I feel so bad when I change the download file path. When I open the properities again, the file path was the same as before. Also, it is not robust enough as when some exception occure, some mistakes always take place. I told my professor I finished the task by using webzip when the webzip project stop, but one day later, I found there are still pages I should save.  Maybe something wrong with my configure file, but I still feel it's not a good tools as I expected.

I downloaded news 30minites and CCTV news by webzip. Level=2. All finished. Clear, neat and tidy.

If the website level you need is not so deep, you may choose it.

Offerline Explorer

I'm using this tool to downloading RMRB from www.people.com.From 2000 to 2006. I have already save 4G pages but the program is still runing. I think it's the most convenience tool. It can be stopped by the stop button simply not like the webzip. 

My computer has been working from 11:00pm last night.. 

After this project is finished, my dear computer can have a rest.

And I have to step into next section.