How to save web pages for offline reading?

Thomas Güttler guettler at thomas-guettler.de
Mon Jul 21 06:07:59 EDT 2003


Will Stuyvesant wrote:

> I am trying to download pages from Python, for offline reading.  This
> to save telephone costs :-)
> 
> If a page contains something like
> <link rel='stylesheet' href='../pythonware.css' type='text/css' />
> and I use fp=urllib.urlopen(...) and then fp.read(), I get the HTML
> but not the CSS.  As a result the page looks bad when reading offline.
>  How to solve this?  Also the .GIF's in a page would be nice, but this
> is less important and also would take more time to download.

Hi,

Does it need to be done with pyhton? 
If not, I would use wget. It has very much features. 

 thomas





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