Rule to save HTML files only -- seeking help with that

[Jimbo]

Hello folks.

I have been playing around with WebCopy and I think it's a beautifully-built app.

However, I'm not much good at stuff like creating rules within it as the syntax structure is foreign to me.

What I would like to be able to do is to save only the HTML (text) files of a given web site, not all of the ancillary files like GIFs, PDFs, JPGs, etc.

Could somebody please help me create a rule to save HTML files only?

Thank you.

[Richard Moss]

Hello,

Thanks for the question. You don't need to use rules for this as there is a simpler approach

• Open Project Properties (Project | Project Properties)
• Select Content Types in the left hand tree
• Click Include only resources with the content types listed below
• In Types to include, enter
  
  Code Select Expand
  text/html
• Click OK to apply the changes and close the dialog
• Copy the website

Regards;
Richard Moss

[Jimbo]

Thank you very much for the reply. That worked beautifully. 

[gary1854]

I tried this using application/pdf to download only pdf files from a site and it downloads nothing at all. 

Hello,

Thanks for the question. You don't need to use rules for this as there is a simpler approach

• Open Project Properties (Project | Project Properties)
• Select Content Types in the left hand tree
• Click Include only resources with the content types listed below
• In Types to include, enter
  
  Code Select Expand
  text/html
• Click OK to apply the changes and close the dialog
• Copy the website

Regards;
Richard Moss