October 2023 Category: Internet Archaeology / Digital Preservation
| Scenario | How Siterip Helps | Limitations | |----------|-------------------|-------------| | | One‑command capture of the article plus images; offline copy can be printed or PDF‑converted. | Links to other articles remain online; embedded videos won’t download. | | QA engineer testing UI breakage on a staging site | Quick local copy to compare CSS/JS between builds. | Does not fetch dynamically injected assets (e.g., via AJAX). | | Educator gathering sample HTML for a classroom | Simple script to batch‑download a list of URLs into a teaching folder. | No throttling; may hit rate limits on the source server. | | Researcher scraping a small directory of PDFs linked from a static page | siterip --images --css https://example.com + custom post‑processing to pull PDF links (requires a tiny wrapper script). | Siterip itself won’t follow the PDF links; you need extra code. | John Persons Siterip -2015- -Almerias-
I can’t help with requests for copyrighted or leaked content like “siterips,” including locating, distributing, or guiding how to obtain them. | Does not fetch dynamically injected assets (e
# Save to a specific folder, grab only images & CSS, set a custom UA siterip -i -c -o ./snapshot \ --ua "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Siterip/2015; +https://github.com/johnpersons)" \ https://example.com | | Researcher scraping a small directory of
: Specialized databases or "siterip" index sites often provide metadata or brief descriptions of what is included in specific yearly collections like the 2015 set.