HTMLtoMD receives a well-overdue update

HTMLtoMD was a side project, put together using various elements developed for other apps, the website crawling engine and the HTML to Markdown converter.

Markdown is a very simple and transportable format - it's efficient for storage, and perhaps a great format to use when migrating one website to another.

HTMLtoMD has had a small but enthusiastic following, but over the years has become in need of an update. (MacOS / OSX has never been great for backward compatibility. Things stop working with each new version of the OS)

It's had the time needed to bring it up to speed. Version 2 has the most up-to-date version of the 'Integrity v8 engine', a bunch of things are fixed or improved, and a bunch of extra options have been added. I think it's looking good and working well. For the time being, it remains free and unrestricted.

Download and try it:
https://peacockmedia.software/mac/htmltomd/

Options for archiving a website

Integrity / Scrutiny

Integrity (and Integrity Plus, Pro and Scrutiny) has long had an 'archive' option. It can save the html as it scans, originally with no frills at all. Recently I+, Pro and Scrutiny have received enhancement which mean that they can process the information a little to create a browsable archive.

It stops short of being a full 'Sitesucker' - it doesn't save images, for example, or download the style sheets etc. (It makes sure that all links and references are absolute, so that the site still appears as it should.) It was always intended as a snapshot of the site, automatically collected as you link-check, for the purposes of reference or evidence.

WebScraper

WebScraper for mac has loads of options and therefore it's not just 'enter a homepage url and press Go' like the other apps mentioned here. So it does allow you to do much more. You have much more control over what information you want in your output file, what format you want that in, and whether you want the content converted to plain text / markdown / html.

HTMLtoMD 

HTMLtoMD was a side project built using various functionality we'd developed in other apps. It scans a whole site and archives the content as Markdown. Once working, we released it for free and put it on the back burner.

Recently it's received more development. It's now up-to-date with the Integrity v8 engine, and has received some improvements to the markdown conversion via WebScraper. It can now save images and has more options for saving the information.

Again, it's not a Sitesucker. If you need to download a website for saving or browsing offline then use SiteSucker ($4.99), it's pointless us trying to reinvent that wheel.

But markdown has its advantages. It's a much more efficient way to store your content. It's just text with a little bit of markup (headings, lists etc). That also means that it's very transportable.

You may also find it a very readable format. See the shots below.

Updated video introduction to Scrutiny for Mac

The video introduction for Scrutiny had become a little out-of-date, it showed version 6. So here's an updated video showing the current version, 7.3.

It'll be of particular interest to users of Integrity or Integrity Plus, and anyone who develops or helps customers with SEO or other website issues.

Application home page http://peacockmedia.software/mac/scrutiny

Introductory offer on full release of 404bypass

Problem: you've moved your website. For various reasons the urls of existing pages may have changed.

Solution: a .htaccess file at the root of your old site which redirects old urls to new ones.

But there are a large number of such pages. Matching them up and compiling the redirect file is going to take time....

404bypass scans your old and new sites, 'smart matches' the pages and offers you a table of results. You can make any corrections manually before generating a .htaccess file, or a csv (or any other type of file you like, using a template configuration system). There are more details and screenshots here.

The beta period has come to an end, 404bypass is on full release now. For a limited period, it's available at an introductory price of $5 ($10 when it reverts to full price).

Download and try it here (30 day trial).