Cyotek WebCopy Upcoming Changes Copy websites locally for offline browsing

The following are changes currently implemented in development builds of Cyotek WebCopy. Please note that these changes are not final and may be removed prior to the next stable release. If you have any comments about these forthcoming changes, please contact us.

Nightly builds featuring these changes are available from the Downloads page.

WebCopy 1.10 and Sitemap Creator 1.3 onwards no longer support Windows Vista, 8 and earlier versions of Windows 10.

Added

• Added new experimental xpath, xpath-select and xpath-separator switches to CLI (User Manual)
• Added the ability to use WebView2 instead of Internet Explorer for manual authentication or form capture [#496] (User Manual)
• TLS settings have been reworked between "Default" and "Custom". When "Default" is used, the operating system defaults will be used [#453] (User Manual)
• Support for TLS 1.3 has been added, if provided by the operating system [#453] (User Manual)
• It is now possible to configure request timeouts [#516] (User Manual)

Changed

• Application is now compiled against .NET Framework 4.8 [#452]

Fixed

• The Test URL dialogue didn't update response views if the request failed to process correctly
• Errors downloading response content no longer cancels the crawl

The following changes are a sneak-peak of features that are currently being experimented with in separate branches from the core product. Due to this they are not available in nightly builds (and there is no guarantee they will be merged into the core branch).

Added

• Crawl state persistence (pause, resume) [#165]

Changed

• Crawling now uses breadth first when prioritising enqueued items