Comparison of software saving Web pages for offline use

HTML Content

Name	Technology	Completeness of saved content	Support for collections	Ease of adding to existing collections	Navigable between saved pages in offline	Format of saved files; open/proprietary	Compression	Notes
wget	command line application	images and CSS (if `-p` option is used), but no client-side generated HTML content	Yes	?	Yes, if `-k` option is used	Open (HTML or WARC)	Yes, if WARC files are used
HTtrack	command line application has WebHTTrack and WinHTTrack GUI front-ends	?	?	?	?	?	?
Scrapbook	Firefox extension	Default: images, CSS and other static content; clientside-generated HTML content—all saved fine Optionally: sound (MP3, WAV, RAM, WMA) video (MPG, AVI, MOV, WMV) archives (ZIP, LZH, RAR, JAR, XPI) custom document extensions	Yes	Easy	No	Proprietary catalog; regular HTML and content for each page	No	Extra features: Search across collections See also "Detailed notes" section below.
Mozilla Archive Format	Firefox extension	Images, CSS and other static content; clientside-generated HTML content saved fine	Yes	Impossible	No	MAFF (=ZIP of regular HTML and web content)	Always
Read Later Fast	Google Chrome extension	Stylesheets are saved incompletely or not at all	No	N/A	No	Proprietary; restricted to Google Chrome profile location	No
PageArchiver	Google Chrome extension	Video and audio files (via Flash or HTML5) are not saved	Yes	Yes (import/export features)	No	Open; regular HTML for pages, regular zip file for catalog	Yes for catalog

Known issues:

saved pages embedding TED.com presentations (incl. pages on TED.com) cannot be played even when online
selecting a piece of page will save only selected piece—inconvenient when you change page title with a quote from the page

To save video embedded on web sites (e.g. YouTube), Download Helper Firefox extension can be used, as well as others for Firefox as well as Chrome.