I am a webmaster of a web site. Usually I need to backup my web site for safe or mirror it to another location. Sometimes we can not browse an interested web site completely and need to browse it offline. How should we do? If there is a powerful and helpful tool that can help us. Of course, here is good news for us. Thank for SoftByte Labs, the publisher of BlackWidow, the powerful and easy to use offline browser. It is an ideal solution for webmasters and web designers.

BlackWidow is a web site scanner, site mapping tool, site ripper, site mirroring tool and an offline browsing program. We can use it to scan a site and create a complete profile of the site structure, files, E-mail addresses, external links and even link errors. We can then use it to download the entire site with all files intact, to use as a site mirror or to be converted by BlackWidow into a locally linked site for offline browsing and long-term reference. BlackWidow can also scan for and download any selection of files: from JPG to CGI to HTM to MIME types, from small to large files, in part of a site or in a group of sites. These pre-scan filtering options can save us countless on-line hours of searching and sorting. BlackWidow will scan HTTP sites, SSL sites (HTTPS) and FTP sites.

The detailed features and functions of BlackWidow include: Internet scanning and downloading tool for the expert and the novice. We can use it to scan a site and create a complete profile of the site structure, files, external links and even link errors. BlackWidow will download all file types such as pictures and images, audio and MP3, videos, documents, ZIP, programs, CSS, Macromedia Flash, .pdf, PHP, CGI, HTM to MIME types from any web sites. Pull links from Java Scripts and Java Scripts files scan Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) and Flash files for links + more from any web site. Write our own "Plugins" for impossible to scan sites.

Net Spy: BlackWidow can monitor all our web activity and build a structure of everything we visit on every web site. This feature is especially useful to find hidden links to files or to spot redirections to other URLs. Use it when loading a page to find out what files and images are being loaded, and then download them, or even the links to popup windows. Not only the BlackWidow NetSpy can spy BlackWidow own browser, it will spy any other programs accessing the internet, and it does not have to be a browser!

Plugins: Support for custom plugins is one of the main features of BlackWidow. Not only BlackWidow can scan any web site, but it comes a time when we simply can not scan a site the standard way. BlackWidow comes with many plugins such as Email Retriever, which let us find emails, even hidden ones. The Links Explorer plugin lets us search for links in files other than HTML, for example, PDF documents, and even Flash Movies. The URL Changer plugin lets us modify or substitute a URL for another. The Doc Changer plugin lets us modify web pages before BlackWidow parses them. These plugins are perfect examples of why BlackWidow is the #1 preferred spider.

Site Structure: One of the unique features of BlackWidow is that it can reproduce the web site directory structure, as if we were to look at the site using FTP or Windows Explorer. This facilitates downloading parts of a site, or even to examine the site layout. Webmasters will find this approach very useful in finding linked folders or files left forgotten that may be a threat to the web site security.

Web Browser: BlackWidow is equipped with a browser so that we can navigate to the site or page we want to scan. The BlackWidow browser can be set to cancel annoying popup windows.

Emails: BlackWidow does not have to scan only for images or files. It can scan for emails too. With its customizable Email Plugin, we can scan for and retrieve hidden emails.

Errors: BlackWidow will list all link errors found by listing the links with the server error code and description. This includes broken links, mistyped links, server errors such as configuration errors etc. BlackWidow can be configured to list the status of links to external web sites to make it easy to find links which no longer exist.

Links Generator: Many times we will find a web site with sequentially named files or images. The Links Generator plugin will let us generate links for BlackWidow to try. This eliminates the need to try them one by one. For example, we can make BlackWidow to scan for img001.jpg to img999.jpg and all of those which are good will be listed in the structure. Even those which were not linked. The syntax algorithm used (developed by SoftByte Labs) is simple and allow patterns within patterns to create links that otherwise is impossible to create using a normal sequential algorithm.

Download: BlackWidow can scan a site without downloading it to our hard drive. For this reason, we can build the structure of the site which we can save as a .web file. Share with others our .web file, such as in our web files area. Use .web files to reload a site in BlackWidow to continue our download, or simply to select other files to download.

Regular Expressions: It is the most powerful text manipulation engine ever invented. They are used intensively on UNIX systems and, BlackWidow. Build scan filters to include/exclude a wide range of URLs and Files to scan. Use them in plugins to modify a document before it is parsed, such as changing thumbnails image tags into full size image links. Change javascript links into normal links. Use them to find emails even if they do not include the @ sign. There are countless ways to use regular expressions, and BlackWidow uses them well, reducing our scan time by as much as 500%. BlackWidow include a regular expression test program to test our expressions before using them.

Expandable: BlackWidow can be customized in any which way we like by using Plugins. For example, we could make a plugin that will search and extract information from a web site database, say, an online store, a job recruiting web site etc. If we are a novice or an experienced programmer, we can make a plugin in less than 15 minutes. All we have to do is fill in the blanks, write your code and we are done. If we are not a programmer or simply do not have the time to make our own plugin. Keep in mind that plugins can do anything; we need not restrict our plugin to scanning files only. The SlowDown plugin for example, slows down the scan randomly to make it look like a human is navigating the site, not a spider.

Languages: We can also run BlackWidow in multi-language interface, all menus, dialog texts and messages. Create our own language by editing the language file directly using the BlackWidow language editor.

BlackWidow 5.22 is a Offline Browser product from softbytelabs.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, BlackWidow is a web site scanner, site mapping tool, site ripper, site mirroring tool and an offline browsing program. Use it to scan a site and create a complete profile of the site's structure, files, E-mail addresses, external links and even link errors. You can then use it to download the entire site with all files intact, to use as a site mirror or to be converted by BlackWidow into a locally linked site for offline browsing and long-term reference. BlackWidow can also scan for and download any selection of files: from JPG to CGI to HTM to MIME types, from small to large files, in part of a site or in a group of sites. These pre-scan filtering options can save you countless on-line hours of searching and sorting. BlackWidow will scan HTTP sites, SSL sites (HTTPS) and FTP sites and supports plug-ins. SoftSea.com had fully tested, reviewed and uploaded the install files, BlackWidow does not contain any adware or spyware, the latest version is 5.22, you can download this offline browser software (12.62 MB) from special server of SoftSea.com. The license of this internet software is Shareware, the price is $40.00, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of BlackWidow, you can buy this internet software.