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Which is best at saving Web pages?
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Posted by Cassius
Jul 10, 2007 at 05:13 AM
From what I know, there are three products for saving Web (& other HTML, etc.) pages that also have some PIMmish properties: MyBase, Surfulater, and Web Research. I own the first two and am playing with a trial copy of the third.
I assume that people who use these in place of or in addition to other PIM products do so because of their ability to accurately save Web pages. It seems reasonable to me that the ability to accurately save Web pages would rank high in the choice of which of these three products one might use.
I have just begun a partial test of this. To wit, if MyBase+WebCollect [my current choice] does not save a page properly, I try saving it using both Surfulater and Web Research. I also try using both Firefox and IE7. (In my first test, WR worked best.)
This test is only partial, because it does not test cases in which Surfulater or WR might not properly save a page, but MB might properly save it.
I would like to propose a small, minimal effort experiment. During the next 2 - 4 weeks, each of us who uses one of these packages (or others), and who is willing, do the following for those pages that their package of choice does not save properly:
1. Copy the URL of the mis-saved page
2. Note whether the copying was from Firefox or IEx AND the product (MB, Surf, WR) used
3. In 2-3 words, note what the problem was (e.g., “multiple copies of images”)
4. After acquiring several examples, post the information (1,2 & 3) for each mis-saved result under this topic.
Each of us who use another product can then test these URLs with our product of choice and report on the results.
Perhaps one product will prove “best,” and, if a developer is following this forum, our results may encourage it to improve its product.
-c
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Jul 10, 2007 at 01:04 PM
How about Net Snippets?
Posted by Cassius
Jul 10, 2007 at 01:26 PM
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>How about Net Snippets?
By all means! Glad to have you join the effort!
Thanks!
-c
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Jul 10, 2007 at 02:14 PM
and I guess there’s also Scrapbook if one uses FF
Posted by JJ
Jul 10, 2007 at 02:17 PM
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
>How about Net Snippets?
FYI… NetSnippets has been discontinued. I would not invest time in a product that is no longer available.
I have had great success with Web Research.
I have found that it does the best job at capturing web pages.
Here is just one example of a test I conducted:
Go to orbitz.com and make a reservation.
Using Web Research, the page was captured perfectly.
I then tried UltraRecall, which only captured parts of the page.
Try this and you can see for yourself.
NOTE: I’ve been trying to move to 1 product (see my thread “Web Research—>> WOW!”)
The more I use WR the more I like it BUT, now that I’m “pushing” the product, I’m finding it’s weaknesses. I’ll be starting a new thread soon with my thoughts.
For just web clipping, I believe WR is the great… (ymmv) (The main weakness I’m finding is the importing of other files into WR i.e. avi files…)
-jj