Iterasi is a perfect tool for creating personal web archives - click a button and it saves an exact copy of the current web page in the original format including all images, style sheets and JavaScript files.
Web pages downloaded into your Iterasi account are preserved forever so even if the original website goes down, you always have access to the old content just like the Wayback Machine at Internet Archive.
Now there’s a new feature that makes this software even more useful - you can schedule Iterasi to download and save your favorite web pages at periodic intervals automatically (e.g. download Yahoo! home page every day at 8 AM).
The process is almost as easy as setting up a recurring appointment in Google Calendar. Type the URL of a web page to track, select how frequently the Iterasi crawlers should harvest content of that page and save.
If you are a geek, you’ll find Iterasi more handy than setting up a wget cron job in Unix. The downside is that your computer should be running during the times you want the scheduler to run.
Also see: Offline Web Clipping Tools
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/software/archive-web-pages-at-regular-intervals/4285/
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Reader Comments
Amit - a post differentiating Iterasi, Scrapbook and Evernote in terms of use cases/differences etc would be cool.
Written by Mrinal on 08.22.08
Unless you wish to backup the Web, Scrapbook is IMO more valuable, quicker (Iterasi takes its time), allows editing page before/after backup, and keeps all pages on ‘your’ computer. Scrapbook is only for Firefox, though. Iterasi on another hand has excellent tagging and filling/retrieving functions, and the new scheduling feature is a real advantage.
Written by Transcontinental on 08.24.08
Hi Amit,
Can you tell me if Itaresi can archive a page which requires login. Eg if I want to archive my Orkut homepage, can I do it? I searched the whole Iterasi site , but I could not find it
Written by Sandeep on 08.26.08