In the Files section, you'll find preferences dealing with files and addresses. The first setting, Use address pattern expressions, can be used to turn on or off the use of address patterns. If this is turned off, all starting addresses are interpreted as regular URLs.
Below that is a section regarding the rewriting of links and file names. The first checkbox decides whether to change links and references in downloaded files to point to local files, when possible. Change URLs to local paths should be enabled if you want to be able to browse the sites you download offline.
When Change file extensions to match content types is enabled, correct file extensions are added to the end of names of files downloaded. The file extensions are determined by the content type reported by the web server. Enabling this setting can make it easier to browse downloaded web sites. For example, HTML pages served by PHP scripts get a .html
extension.
The last setting in the first section is for choosing how to handle duplicate file names. The default is to choose new unique names. This means that duplicate files get -1
, -2
, etc appended to their names.
The Caching setting can enable faster downloads, if you have fetched the files earlier. It can however make SiteCrawler mistakenly use old versions of web pages.
The timeout specifies how long SiteCrawler waits for a download to start before giving up.
Bundled with SiteCrawler is an optional Safari plug-in. Using this can provide a few useful features. You can install or uninstall the plug-in by clicking the button in the Safari section.
After installing or uninstalling, you need to restart Safari, if it's open, in order for the change to take effect. When Safari is started with the plug-in installed, you can enable and disable plug-in features without restarting Safari.
The first integration setting called Use Safari's session cookies makes SiteCrawler inherit Safari's session cookies automatically. This is very useful for crawling some password-protected web sites. You usually want to leave this setting enabled, unless you're experiencing problems with it.
The two remaining settings can make menu items appear in Safari. Show menu items inserts an item into Safari's File menu as a shortcut to crawl the current page. The second setting places an item in Safari's contextual menus for crawling links and images.