This project is a Node.js script that clones a website by downloading its HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image resources. It's designed to create a local copy of a website for offline viewing or analysis.

• Downloads and saves the main HTML content of a specified URL
• Retrieves and stores all linked CSS stylesheets
• Captures and saves all referenced JavaScript files
• Downloads all images found on the page
• Maintains the original structure of resources in local directories
• Generates unique filenames to avoid conflicts

Before you begin, ensure you have met the following requirements:

• Node.js installed on your local machine
• npm (Node Package Manager) to install dependencies

1. Clone this repository to your local machine:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/website-cloner.git
   

2. Navigate to the project directory:

   cd website-cloner
   

3. Install the required dependencies:

   npm install
   

1. Open the main.js file and modify the URL in the last line to the website you want to clone:

   downloadWebpage('https://example.com')

2. Run the script:

   node main.js
   

3. The cloned website will be saved in the websites directory, organized by domain name.

• main.js: The main script that handles the website cloning process
• websites/: Directory where cloned websites are stored
  • [domain]/: Subdirectory for each cloned website (e.g., example.com/)
    • index.html: The main HTML file of the cloned website
    • css/: Directory containing downloaded CSS files
    • js/: Directory containing downloaded JavaScript files
    • img/: Directory containing downloaded image files

• axios: Promise-based HTTP client for making requests
• cheerio: Fast, flexible & lean implementation of core jQuery for parsing HTML

• This script captures the static content of a website. Dynamic content loaded via JavaScript may not be fully captured.
• It does not follow links to other pages within the website.
• Some websites may have measures in place to prevent scraping, which could affect the cloning process.

Contributions to improve the Website Cloner are welcome. Please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository
2. Create a new branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Make your changes
4. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
5. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
6. Open a Pull Request

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.

• This project uses Axios and Cheerio, which are fantastic libraries for HTTP requests and HTML parsing, respectively.