Offline Commander

Offline Commander posseses many unique features not found in other browsers! If your Web activity consumes much of your time Offline Commander will certainly help you. You can use Offline Commander to automate your browsing tasks, create copies of entire Web sites, browse Web sites offline, search Web sites for keywords. You are also able to save Web pages, organize your Web research, download all images from a Web site to your hard drive, create a static copy of a dynamic Web site, convert your Web site to use relative links instead of absolute links, view directory and logical structure of a Web site and download Web sites to MS Access database for programmatic manipulation and analysis.



Offline Commander Features:

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Multiple tasks per project.

Multithreaded Web spider. User configurable Maximum Connections, Maximum Connections Per Server, Pause Between Connections, Maximum Retries, Timeout.

Supported protocols: FILE, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP.

Proxy support: HTTP, HTTPS, FTP via HTTP proxy. No proxy configuration required: by default OC uses Internet Explorer proxy settings.

Resumes broken downloads for HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP-via-HTTP connections.

Powerful filters. Separate filters for links, images, objects. Advanced pattern matching filters using wildcards * and ?. Boolean expressions (AND, OR, NOT, parentheses to group expressions). File size filters (maximum size, minimum size).

Configurable User Agent. Preconfigured User Agent settings. Default is IE.

Ability to automatically detect availability of Internet connection.

Projects are stored in a standard Microsoft Access database (with extention .ocp for Offline Commander or .irp for Internet Researcher).

Ability to export downloaded Web sites to a folder on the disk.

Ability to search in downloaded files by keywords, phrases, complex boolean expressions, URLs, Web page titles, file size ranges, file types, file modification dates, and download dates.

Full drag and drop support within the application and between the application and Internet Explorer and Shell.

Direct access to the download queue. Ability to search in the queue and delete queued files.

Built-in browser. By default browsers open in tabs inside the main window and do not clutter your desktop.

Pages stored inside the OC project database are safe for browsing.

Password protection to project files added. The commands to set or remove a password on the currently opened project file are available on the Tools menu.

OC has now the ability to automatically dial up a connection, download tasks, disconnect, and exit. You can also set a limit on the download time. This new functionality is available by running OC with command line parameters. For a list of all parameters and their proper usage run "oc.exe /?". To schedule OC to run at a particular time use Windows scheduler. You can find the Windows scheduler in Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks.