RafaBot is a high-speed, multi-threading, large scale web
spidering robot. A powerful bulk website downloading tool. It can
download websites from a starting URL, search engine results or
web dirs and able to follow external links. It can download either
a single website or many thousands of websites in one session.
RafaBot saves all downloaded files in user hard drive in native
format and user can view / research / extract them off-line
without being connected to the Internet. It has numerous filters
to restrict download like - URL filter, date modified, text, file
type, file size, etc. It allows user-selectable recursion levels,
retrieval threads, timeout, proxy support and accesses
password-protected sites.

Proven uses
of RafaBot:
(1) Download websites for offline browsing.
(2) Download
hundreds/thousands of web sites within one session. You supply a
text file where RafaBot finds all URL links to download one by
one.
(3) Download
websites that listed in Yahoo, Google or other dirs. You only
enter dir page like "http://directory.google.com/Top/Business/Industries/Import_and_Export/Food_and_Beverage/" or
"http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Shopping_and_Services/Photography/Photographers/"
and RafaBot will download all websites found there. You can set
filter, depth to control download.
(4) Download
websites that are found using search engine keyword. You just
enter a keyword, RafaBot will query all popular search engines,
extract search results and download all matching websites. You
can select which search engines to use and optionally add other
search sources. You can set various filter, depth to control
download.

System
Requirements: Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP, 32 MB RAM, 1
MB Hard Disk Space, Internet Connection.
Other Useful Utility:
Win
Web Crawler -
A powerful web crawler utility
to Extract
- URL
- meta tag (title, description, keyword),
- plain text between <body> to
</body> tag
- page size
- last modified date value
URL Generator - Create
a list of URL's based on the field values you enter, the list can then be saved
from the program and loaded into offline downloader program like RafaBot.
Link Extractor
- Extract
link , URL from any type of file.
Some Notes:
# There are some sites that use
encrypted url with javascript for all external urls, for example:
http://www.rafasys.com/
http://www.financedir.com/marketing
http://www.filehungry.com/
.......
So, RafaBot can not visit external
sites exist on those sites.
# Do not use it to download
monster type sites like
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.downloadjunction.com
http://www.abc-directory.com
......
when you have only few GB hard
disk.
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