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Episode: 4293
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Title: HPR4293: HTTrack website copier software
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4293/hpr4293.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 22:35:45
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4293 for Wednesday the 15th of January 2025.
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Today's show is entitled HD Track website copier software.
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It is hosted by Henry Cameron and is about four minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, I use the HD Track software to get my own copy of websites.
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Welcome to Hacker Public Radio.
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My name is Henry Cameron and I'm your host today.
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The way back machine by the Internet Archive is a very good resource for websites no longer
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existing or older revisions of them.
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However, sometimes I have also found it's nice and useful to have my own copy of a website.
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It means I have control over the copy and it can be accessed offline and I have no
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worldwide weight for the page to load.
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My most typical use case is for websites that I am manager of myself.
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For one or another reason I want to keep a snapshot of the site.
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I have also used it for fact-based sites which I want to always have access to, like
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a reference book.
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And one of my recent use cases was a magazine that has closed down and announced the website
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will also soon be terminated.
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Although it's available in the way back machine I wanted to have a copy myself for a short
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period of time.
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The software I use for this is HT Track.
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This software is available for Windows, Android, Linux and Unix-like systems.
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It is at least for some platforms available with a graphical user interface.
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I have myself only used HT Track with a terminal interface on Linux.
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HT Track is a free and open source software.
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In its simplest way to operate it's just to type HT Track followed by the URL to the
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storage page of the site to be copied.
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In many cases this works well, I get a perfect copy.
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In other cases it works less well.
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First of all, of course I do not copy very big websites, both for the amount of time it
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takes and for the disk space.
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What is stated in the robot text file on the site can also matter for the result.
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Another issue can be the folder structure of the site, HT Track may not find all folders
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in the default setup, for example how images are stored.
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I have myself also got issues when menus and links not works normal where I instead have
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to right click to open the link.
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The HT Track website has quite a lot of information in the documentation and it also has a forum.
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And in the terminal there is also good help about all additional available commands.
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I have in my general use it's found the simple first attempt to copy sites that it gives
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perfect or good enough result directly without need to research details.
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So when I want to preserve snapshot of earlier releases of my own sites or when I want
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to have an offline and preserved copy of an important site, I consider HT Track to be
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an easy to use and yet powerful tool.
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I am aware of similar tool exist but this is the one I currently use.
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Thank you for listening, take care and goodbye.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at HackerPublicRadio.org.
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Today's show was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself.
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If you ever thought of recording a podcast, then click on our contribute link to find
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out how easy it really is.
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Posting for HBR has been kindly provided by an honesthost.com, the internet archive and
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rsync.net.
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On this address status, today's show is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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