Miroir at Mac App Store analyse

Miroir is a web-scraper/spider allowing you to backup (mirror) websites for offline use. This could prove useful if you want to backup a blog or keep a copy of a website that may be shut down.

A relatively large variety of engine options are made available, such as :

• Spider options : alter the ways robots.txt files are treated, parse JAVA files, accept cookies, attempt to parse links even in javascript or other tags, ...
• Limit options : set the maximum mirroring depth (both internal and external), the maximum size of non-HTML or HTML files that are to be mirrored, the maximum size of the mirror, the maximum time spent mirroring, the maximum transfer rate, the maximum connections/second, the maximum number of links, ...
• Download options : set the maximum number of connections, the timeout length, the number of retries (when the app fails to download a file), the minimum transfer rate, ...
• Identity options : use a proxy, set up the default referrer URL, set up HTTP headers, ...
• Build options : create log files, use a cache, alter the structure of the resulting copy, make an index, ... (websites can be downloaded as is or can also be encapsulated in document files).

Chosen mirroring options can be saved as presets.

Several websites can be downloaded at the same time, if you tell the app to use a cache it continues where it left off.

The apps file size is small (less than 7Mb). It is user-friendly. It is currently compatible with any OS starting from Mavericks (MacOS9). As the dock icons of the older OSs were more glossy, a custom icon is included in the Apps bundle.

Feature requests are always considered, you can send the developer an e-mail in the about window of the app.