Offline Commander lets you download and organize Web pages or entire websites for offline browsing or searching.

You can search downloaded websites for keywords using built-in full-text indexing, view directory structure of a website and its sitemap.

You can also surf the Internet faster while you are online prefetching specific links with a click of the mouse and record every page you browse with the built-in browser.

Offline Commander features a very intuitive user interface, multithreaded web spider, reports, and powerful pattern matching URL filters that you can debug and modify even after a download starts. A very useful feature of Offline Commander lets you fetch multiple links within a text selection with a single click of the mouse.

Just a few of the programs features: record every page you browse with the built-in IE browser, search archived pages for keywords using built-in full-text indexing, view directory and Web structure of Web sites, share downloaded Web archives between computers, open Offline Commander project files directly in MS Access for analysis.

Offline Commander can automatically download entire Web sites and run multiple jobs simultaneously. Offline Commander also features powerful boolean filters, exporting, reports, tabbed browser, and password protection.

See below what Offline Commander can do for you:
· Organize your Web research.
· Automate your browsing tasks.
· Create copies of entire Web sites.
· Search Web sites for keywords.
· Download Web sites to MS Access database for programmatic manipulation and analysis.
· Create a static copy of a dynamic Web site.
· Browse Web sites offline.
· View directory and logical structure of a Web site.
· An alternative very FAST browser.
· Save Web pages.
· Download all images from a Web site to your hard drive.
· Convert your Web site to use relative links instead of absolute links.(use to move or copy website to another location)
· Check for broken links on your Web site.

Here are some key features of "Offline Commander":

· 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). Filter debugger. For more information, see How to Use Filters in the Online Help.
· Configurable User Agent. Preconfigured User Agent settings. Default is IE.
· HTTP Referrer support. Configurable starting Referrer.
· Ability to automatically detect availability of Internet connection. For more information, see in the Online Help.
· 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.
· Drop Box.
· Direct access to the download queue. Ability to search in the queue and delete queued files.
· Filters and depth may be changed at the time of download.
· Built-in browser. By default browsers open in tabs inside the main window and do not clutter your desktop.
· Ability to enqueue (prefetch) individual links from within the internal browser.
· Pages stored inside the OC project database are safe for browsing.
· OC has now ability to work with read-only project files (e.g. from a CD).
· 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.
· UNIX style text files are displayed correctly when using the View Source command.


Limitations:

· will download only up to 500 files per project and no more than 10000 files per installation
· 30 uses