Project Settings



WebCopier Project represents a downloading task. The program keeps all your Projects with their settings between working sessions.

Each Project has a number of settings, which could be viewed or changed using the Project Settings dialog.

The settings are divided in four groups: General, Download, Contents and Advanced.


General settings

Project

Website

Authentication

  • It’s highly recommended to specify for each project unique Save in Directory name. Otherwise project files downloaded from the Internet can be overwritten by another project files, because they will be saved in the same directory.


Download settings

Restrictions

  • These settings can be changed during download.

  • If files from HTML category do not match the Min. or Max. File Size restriction, they will be downloaded, parsed and, only after that, deleted.

Contents settings

These settings control the appearance and behavior of the Contents Tree. They don’t affect the download process.

During Download

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Advanced / Download settings

Level Limits

Update Files

Links Conversion

  • The Offsite Links parameter is available only when you have specified to load files from All Servers, or if you have at least one URL filter with the action Include.
  • You can do the Links Conversion later at any time by using Project / Convert Links menu command.

Advanced / File Filters settings

File filters allow you to selectively download files by file type.

For your convenience all files are grouped in file types categories: HTML, Image, Audio, Video, Java, Document, Archive and Other.

You may enable or disable loading the whole file types categories, by setting or removing checks on the File Types list.

You can set different size limits for different file types (for example, HTML, Image, Audio).


Advanced / URL Filters settings

URL filters allow you easily shape Project downloads by setting which files could be loaded and which should be skipped.

All URL Filters are divided into four sections:

Load files from Server

Load files from Directory

URL Filters

The Filters List allows you to add, change or remove URL filters.

To create a new filter press the corresponding button, fill the filter sections and select an action to include or exclude files based on the filter settings.

You can leave a section empty to skip checking of this section.

Also, you can use wildcards asterisk (*) and symbol (^) to match patterns.

Asterisk (*) wildcard character matches any number of characters. The symbol (^) matches any single character.


Advanced / Other settings

Download

Directory structure

Agent Identification

Sometimes it’s necessary to change the way WebCopier represents itself to other Web servers.

This is called Agent Identification, and the default setting is WebCopier. The program has several preset values you can choose from.

Usually the Agent Identification value doesn’t affect most websites. However, sometimes you may experience problems with downloading some protected websites until the correct Agent Identification is be set.