https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8186/

This might be very useful for pages that feature resources which you're paranoid about losing if the site goes down. Just thought I'd link to it. If it's a popular community site, might be better for just one person to use it then externally link any useful files, to keep a given site's server from being hammered by hoarders. ;p

It essentially can be used as a download manager that allows you to batch download files 'one link deep', etc.

Also a possible use: Snagging the entries of blogs that have certain types of links that might possibly be conducive to those blogs being taken down without notice.

Edit: BTW If anyone knows how to use the regex filter to include/exclude in such a way that only specific domain links get procured.... that would be useful information.

I find myself using it instead of bookmarks and printouts. And for technical stuff I might need at a customer with no internet access (for me and my laptop, anyway).

Very useful for grabbing useful blog posts, news stories, other stuff that will disappear one of these weeks or that I simply don't remember how I found. I tend to just grab the page I need w/dependencies (css, images) and not do any recursion - there are better tools for that, and it's a bit rude.

Yeah to be clear about above entries, I'd only recommend downloading data one link deep for specific subsets of small files that a site operating in a legal gray area operates in, for posterity's sake, preferably only doing this once and then sharing elsewhere to minimize server load; elsewhere, under the same legal/posterity criteria I'd advocate essentially a text-only archiving of specific entries (the ones that contain direct links elsewhere so essentially it's a quick building of an index of links to be followed in the future, as Google only caches partially).

One of my favourite sites went down recently with no signs of reemergence, and I wish I'd discovered this add-on before, as now hundreds of links are lost.

I just discovered that include/exclude filter's actually really simple, no need for complicated regex, methinks.

Quote:I just discovered that include/exclude filter's actually really simple, no need for complicated regex, methinks.

There's a filter? I've been manually unchecking most of the boxes. It's tedious, so I rarely do it. But it would be useful for work...I sometimes need to download items in a set for research or preserve a copy of a site as it was on a particular day.

nest0r Wrote:One of my favourite sites went down recently with no signs of reemergence, and I wish I'd discovered this add-on before, as now hundreds of links are lost.

aaaarg? what a shame. Pls let us know if something like that resurfaces (or send me your hoarder index?) :-)They should have just licensed all that stuff and marketed it with breathless endorsements and a few celebuloid scandals. Strategically labeled aaaarg designer panties? Turned it into a social networking site for the unsocial set complete with dodgy data treasure hunting. Lots of product placement potential too. I could see a superhero flying about with a worn copy of Goethe tucked firmly under arm. Ah..what could have been. But thanks for the memory.

Thora Wrote:

Quote:I just discovered that include/exclude filter's actually really simple, no need for complicated regex, methinks.

There's a filter? I've been manually unchecking most of the boxes. It's tedious, so I rarely do it. But it would be useful for work...I sometimes need to download items in a set for research or preserve a copy of a site as it was on a particular day.

nest0r Wrote:One of my favourite sites went down recently with no signs of reemergence, and I wish I'd discovered this add-on before, as now hundreds of links are lost.

aaaarg? what a shame. Pls let us know if something like that resurfaces (or send me your hoarder index?) :-)They should have just licensed all that stuff and marketed it with breathless endorsements and a few celebuloid scandals. Strategically labeled aaaarg designer panties? Turned it into a social networking site for the unsocial set complete with dodgy data treasure hunting. Lots of product placement potential too. I could see a superhero flying about with a worn copy of Goethe tucked firmly under arm. Ah..what could have been. But thanks for the memory.

Nope that one's still up (try with five of them rather than four); I was referring to a blog that a friend of a friend told me they might visit, that features DDL links for Asian cinema. The links themselves are still up, but only a fraction of them have been preserved in Google's cache. There's always link aggregator search engines though...

The filter is for the Scrapbook Plus (not Scrapbook) add-on (before installing you uninstall Scrapbook if you already have it, the data's preserved and Scrapbook Plus will automatically know where it's at); when the DL box comes up with the checkable boxes, it doesn't start immediately, allowing you to click the 'Filter' button at the bottom left and include/exclude strings/regular expressions before hitting 'Start'.

oh, Scrapbook plus. Done. Thx

So the academic revolutionaries regrouped. Glad I mentioned it! You're on my christmas list.

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I started using a Webpage to PDF service, this is very, very cool. If you set your PDF Reader to "single page, continous", it's like reading the original page. The text can be selected, and the links work!

http://pdfcrowd.com