What is website-downloader?

Website Downloader is a small Node.js web app that lets you download a full copy of any website, including its images, stylesheets, and JavaScript files, so it can be viewed offline. You paste in a web address, the tool fetches everything, compresses it into a single file, and sends it back to you through a live connection in the browser rather than making you wait for a page reload. Under the hood, it relies on two existing command line tools rather than reinventing the work itself. It uses wget, a well known download utility, with a specific set of options that make the download recursive, convert links so pages work offline, add correct file extensions, pull in required files like stylesheets and images, and avoid wandering outside the site being downloaded. Once wget finishes, a tool called archiver zips everything up before it is delivered to the user. Running it yourself is simple: clone the repository, install its dependencies with npm, start it, and open the local address it prints in your browser. There is also a hosted live demo linked in the README if you just want to try it without installing anything, and one click deploy buttons for several cloud hosting providers if you want to run your own copy online. The project is open to contributions through bug reports and pull requests, and the README does not mention a specific software license.