Defining main parameters

All the main parameters are on the [Settings] tabsheet on the right frame :

After choosing a starting URL, you must set an Output folder: the place on your hard drive where the output files are going to be written. Warning : Because the whole content of this output folder can be deleted (reinitialized) by the software, you must choose a new empty folder (for example, avoid using “My documents” root folder for output).

Next, set the general search mode for surfing through links in the [Links surfing] group box:

• Search all links: for each HTML page and every site found, all the links and pages are scanned and downloaded, and so on...
  
• Initial site: scans only links owned by the site of the starting URL.
  
• Initial path: scans only links with the same sub path than the starting URL (links of the same tree level and below).
  

Next, use the Scan settings parameter to set Search depth level: it represents the depth to which the page tree is followed, starting from the first URL. In other words, every time the software finds a link, it follows it, up to n times. With a high value, entire Web sites can be captured.

You can set more options using the Analysis options tabsheet or Advanced parameters command.

Read the next part:
Analysis options

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