This second tutorial covers the information panels displayed in the lower section of the WebCopy main window. These panels allow you to see the contents and structure of a website, and any errors that were encountered crawling the website.

Opening a remote URL

  • Context click an item in the list and choose Open in browser  to open the remote URL in your default browser.

Opening a local file

  • Context click an item in the list and choose Open local file  to open the local file in the default registered application. This option is not available in the Errors, Skipped or Missing panels.

Opening a local folder

  • Context click an item in the list and choose Open local folder  to open an Explorer window at the location of the local file. This option is not available in the Errors, Skipped or Missing panels.

Editing / previewing a local file

  • Context click an item in the list and choose Open local folder  to open the file within WebCopy. Only text based or image files are currently supported. This option is not available in the Errors, Skipped or Missing panels.

Creating a Rule

  • Context click an item in the list and choose Add Rule  to open a rule editor for the selected URL.

Viewing the Link Map

  • Context click an item in the list and choose View Link Map  to view the list of URL's pointing to and from the selected URL.

Viewing the properties of a URL

  • Context click an item in the list and choose Properties  to display the properties of the URL.

Copying the selection

  • Context click one or more items in the list and choose Copy  to copy the selection to the Windows Clipboard.

Exporting to CSV

  • Context click the list and choose Export  to export the contents of the list to a Comma Separated Values (CSV) document. This option is not available in the Sitemap panel.

The Results Panel

This panel displays the results of the last analyze or copy operation. Green icons indicate a successful action,  yellow indicate an action that was aborted due to the settings of the project, and red icons indicate errors.

The list displays the URL that was process, the final status of the URL, how the URL was found and the size of the URL's contents.

The image below shows an example of the output after copying a web site from the first tutorial.


The Errors Panel

The errors panel displays a list of errors that were encounter during the last analyze or copy. URL's that were skipped (for any reason) do not count as errors and are not listed here.

The image below shows an example of the output after copying a web site from the first tutorial. The demonstration website has a link pointing to a page which does not exist.


The Sitemap Panel

This panel displays the structure of the copied website. Unlike WebCopy's sister product, Sitemap Creator, this panel will list any detected file.

The image below shows an example of the output after copying a web site from the first tutorial. Visible are the actual HTML content pages, but also related script and image resources.


The Skipped Panel

This panel displays a list of any URL's which were skipped. A URL can be skipped for several reasons, including:

  • A URL which is external, ie not belonging to the domain currently being scanned
  • A URL which has been excluded via a rule
  • A URL which is above the starting URL of the copy

The image below shows an example of the output after copying a web site from the first tutorial. Links to cyotek.com and the author of the website design have been excluded due their domains not matching the web site domain.


The Files Panel

This panel displays a list of the files discovered during the crawl. Similar to the Sitemap panel, it is presented as a flat list.


The Missing Panel

This panel displays the any files that were found during a previous scan, but were not found during the last scan.