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xroche/httrack

HTTrack Website Copier, copy websites to your computer (Official repository) observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/xroche/httrack · homepage · C · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

99/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 99
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 3.5
  • age_days: 4190
  • days_rel: 7
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 15

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

4702 stars · 772 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

HTTrack is a free offline browser utility that recursively downloads websites to a local directory, rewriting links so the mirrored copy can be browsed as if online. It ships as a command-line tool plus GUIs (WinHTTrack, WebHTTrack, Android app) and supports resuming and updating existing mirrors.

Use cases

  • download an entire website for offline browsing
  • mirror a website to a local directory
  • archive a site before it goes offline
  • resume an interrupted website download
  • update an existing site mirror without re-downloading unchanged files
  • scrape a site's html, images, and assets recursively

When to choose

  • you need a battle-tested, configurable site-mirroring tool with cross-platform GUIs
  • you want to browse a copied site link-by-link with preserved relative link structure
  • you need resumable, updatable mirrors and proxy/HTTPS support

When to avoid

  • you need JavaScript-rendered single-page apps captured accurately
  • you want a modern headless-browser scraping pipeline with custom scripting
  • you need API-level data extraction rather than static file mirroring

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

web-scraping http-client cli gui developer-tools web-development crawlers privacy windows bsd cli cross-platform offline-browser website-mirror website-copier crawler archiving command-line linux macos android

4 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
xroche/httrackmain99

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="xroche/httrack")

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