WebPump

WebPump is a tiny and portable application designed to help you download the contents of a website to any location on the hard disk. It offers support for offline browsing and comes packed with standard and advanced configuration settings alike.

No installation required

Since there is no setup pack involved, you can drop the program files anywhere on the HDD and just click the executable to launch WebPump. Another option is to keep it stored on a USB flash drive to directly run it on any PC with minimum effort and no previous installers. Plus, it doesn't edit the Windows registry configuration.

Clear-cut interface and options

The GUI doesn't contain attractive graphical elements but it has a neatly organized structure which makes it easy to navigate. You can get started by specifying the URL of the website you want to download contents from. Alternatively, you can point out a file list with multiple URLs, or an HTML file via drag-and-drop support.

Include and exclude URLs and file types

It's possible to create lists with URLS to include and to exclude from the downloading job, depending on your preferences. What's more, you can filter files by type. For example, you can enter the extensions of images you want to get ahold of while excluding the rest.

Set the recursion depth and offline browsing

WebPump also lets you establish the saving directory, limit the search by setting the recursion depth level (i.e. number of sublinks to scan), as well as make the pages available for offline browsing. This last mentioned option means that the task will take longer. If offline browsing is not enabled, then WebPump simply creates a map of the website, which can be only explored if you have an active Internet connection.

Tinker with advanced settigs

Advanced users may toy with additional options, such as scanner rules (query MIME, force as HTML or resource), whether or not to follow FTP and to split the URL list into different folders, random delay time, download (direct download, external downloader, or create files list), logging, headers, proxy, browser user agent, and web interface.

Evaluation and conclusion

We haven't come across any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that the software application didn't hang, crash or prompt error messages. It left a small footprint on system resources, running on low CPU and RAM.
On the other hand, WebPump hasn't been updated for a pretty long time and it needs some improvements, especially when it comes to its interface. Nevertheless, you can test the tool for yourself, since it's free.