HTTrack Website Copier 3.50.0 Download for Windows, macOS, Linux & Android

Expert Tips

Setting Up Your First Mirror Project

1. Launch WinHTTrack (Windows) or WebHTTrack (Linux/Unix/BSD) and click Next on the welcome screen.
2. Enter a descriptive project name (e.g., “docs-archive”) and choose a base path where the mirrored files will be stored.
3. Paste the target website URL into the Web Addresses field, optionally using filters like +.example.com/ to stay within a single domain.
4. Adjust the connection settings — set Maximum transfer rate, Number of connections, and Mirror depth to match your needs.
5. Click Finish to start the mirror, and let HTTrack build the recursive directory structure on your local drive.

Reason To Do This: Going through the wizard step by step ensures your mirror is scoped to the right domain, saved to a path you can find later, and respects your bandwidth limits — avoiding accidental downloads of the entire internet.

Resuming an Interrupted Mirror

1. Open HTTrack and choose the option to update an existing project rather than starting a new one.
2. Browse to the base path of the original mirror you want to continue.
3. Review the filter and depth settings to make sure they match the original project so HTTrack doesn’t recrawl unintended areas.
4. Click Next/Finish to resume; HTTrack will detect already-downloaded files and only fetch what is missing.
5. Once complete, verify the result by opening the local index in your browser.

Reason To Do This: Resuming rather than restarting saves time and bandwidth, especially on large sites or slow connections, and ensures your archive stays consistent with the original filter rules.

Mirroring to a ZIP Archive for Portable Use

1. In the HTTrack options, enable the ZIP cache feature under the advanced settings.
2. Run your mirror as usual against the target website.
3. When the mirror finishes, locate the generated ZIP file in your chosen base path.
4. Copy the ZIP to a USB drive or cloud folder for fully portable offline browsing.
5. Extract on any computer with a browser to view the mirrored site without installing HTTrack itself.

Reason To Do This: Caching to a ZIP is perfect for sharing an offline archive of documentation or reference material with colleagues who don’t have HTTrack installed, and it keeps the mirror as a single tidy file instead of a sprawling folder tree.