Both wget and wput are also available for Windows so far as I know under the same terms as they are for the Linux operating system. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 17:16 To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Dorene Cornwell Subject: Re: Accessible spider or web crawl utilities The best, free, web site downloader I found for Windows is from this web site: HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser - http://httrack.com/ This web site has inexpensive, commercial web search tools: Kryloff Technologies develops software to find, search, summarize and manage information - http://www.kryltech.com/welcome.html Hope this helps, Jamal On 1/17/2011 7:01 PM, Dorene Cornwell wrote: > Hi All, > > This item from another list is kind of on the edge between programming > and general applications use. Nevertheless I figured someone on this > list might have some suggestions for accessible spider or web crawl / > search tools. > > Here is the original post but I bet many people on this list would be > interested in the answers. > > THANKS in advance > > Dorene Cornwell > Seattle WA > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nan Hawthorne<hawthorne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: VICUG-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 12:22 pm > Subject: [VICUG-L] automated data collection tools > > I would love to find a tool that would go out on the web and find > information on all kinds of research topics so I don't have to search on > my own. Specifically I want to find research useful for my novels, > namely facts about aspects of daily Anglo Saxon life, like crops, the > money, jurisprudence, you name it. > > Now I thought that was what DataFerret was but it seems to be US Census > info. > > Is anyone aware of anything like what I am talking about? For instance > I might set the tool to look for material about crops grown in souther > England in the tenth century. It would then go looking all over the web > and send me a list of sites it foound. > > Thanks for any advice you can offer. __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind