[Best Method] How to Download Source Code Of Website 2023-Full Guide

The source codes are very important to build any site or software, so basically, source codes are the foundation of any program and website. You are going to see all methods/software that is used to Easily Download the Source Code (HTML, CSS, Javascript) of any website in free.

You know nowadays security is a myth so if you have your own website then it becomes very important to takes its backup, in case the server breaks or you get hacked at that time it plays an important role to fix your website.

You can use the below-listed software/methods to download any source code of your website for future reference, so later on, you can able to view and access your file without having Internet connections.

There are many methods are available to download source codes. This can be done by

• Various software
• Different browsers
• Window command terminal
• Inspect

It is so easy to download the complete source codes of any website like HTML, CSS, javascript, and any other, You are going to see the best ways to download the source code of any website in this article.

First, we see

Software used to download the source code of any website

HTTrack

HTTrack website copier is free software that is used to download the source code of a website so you can easily able to view the downloaded websites in offline mode. 

HTTrack is available for Windows, Mac, and Android. Well, it is hard to find a source code downloader for Android and iOS mobile. But HTTrack comes with this feature for android. This is its plus point, and that’s why we placed this software at top of the list.

HTTrack download site from internet to your system with recursively all directories, with every code, image, and other files. So you can easily browse downloaded source code with HTTrack with no internet connections. 

HTTrack comes with the latest version of 3.49.2 for windows 2000 to above Window 10. 

If you don’t like HTTrack or it doesn’t work on your system, then you can go for other software as well.

How to set HTTrack?

• Choose the project name and destination where you want to save it.
• Fill the addresses
• Select an action
• Enter the site addresses

Now enter on Next button

• Now Ready to start, you also able to connect immediately or delay the mirroring.
• Click on the Finish button.

Wait..

• Wait until the mirror is finishing

Check your result

• Check log files

Now you’re done with HTTrack on ‘How to use HTTrack to download entire source code HTML, css, and javascript files‘ !!

Cyotek WebCopy

Cyotek WebCopy is another software that helps you to download the source code of any website in your local system and use it later without having an Internet connection.  

Cyotek WebCopy is free software to use in Windows. It downloads all resources linked with websites such as images, style-sheet, videos, and all pages path automatically download in a local system perfectly. In this software, you can customize configuration which you decide which part of a website will be copied and which is not.  

Minimum Requirements:

• windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, vista SP2.
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6

UnMHT

UnMHT allows you to view and save files. UnMHT allows you to view MHT web archive format files and save complete web pages, including text and graphics into MHT files. It is webpage archive format to store HTML and images, CSS into single MHT files.

Features:

• It is a Firefox Addon.
• Save webpages as MHT files.
• Save multiple tabs as single MHT files at once.

Convert HTML files and directories into MHT files. 

Requirement:

• Firefox

Grab-Site

Grab-Site is used to web crawl websites just enter the URL in Grab-Site and it will crawl your given site.

Grab-Site is another software that you can download from a GitHub repository. Grab-Site works perfectly on Ubuntu, NixOS, MacOS, Windows 10( experimental).

Features:

• It provide you a dashboard where you see all details of crawl websites, which websites are done in copying source code, and which are remaining.
• If there is a more duplicate pages than Grab-Site ignore them. Ignore options is available for junks urls.

Website Downloader

Website Downloader is an online website that helps you to download any website, all you need is its address (URL). You can say it is the simplest way to download the source code of any website without downloading & installing a third-party application, just paste the URL, and get your website’s entire source code instantly.

• Visit Website Downloader.

It downloads HTML files, Javascript, Images, CSS all assets of a website to your local system hard drive in a zip format that contains the HTML source code of the website.

You can view the downloaded sites in the browser and edit downloaded website source code using the code editor.

Now take a look at Paid software:

Website Ripper 

Website Ripper Copier is a powerful tool, if you want to use it for a professional level it is here for you.

Website Ripper Copier is a paid software that comes with 30 day’s free trial.

Advanced features :

• Crawl HTTPs, SSL and FTP websites.
• support proxy servers.
• Support Web cookies and sessions.
• Support old and new CSS. 
• Explore website link structures.
  Schedule to automatically backup website at anytime.
• Retrieve a large amount of files with resumption support. 

These are the best softwares that you can use to download the complete source code of your website!!

Browser:

How To Download Source Code Of Any Website Using Browser?

Many people often ask how they can download the source code of any website without using any third-party software, just by using their browser only. So, now you’re going to look at this method of downloading source code using any browser.

Note: Firefox, chrome, and Edge browsers follow similar methods if you know how to do it (download source code) on one browser then you can easily able to do it on another browser also but for safari it’s different.

Download source code using Mozilla Firefox

Go to the Website address whose source code you want to download.

• Right-click on the page.
• Select View Page source, it open in another tab.
• Now again Right-click and click on Save Page As. 
• Save the file as a .txt format or you can save page as .html format to browse it and then open it with Notepad to see source code.

Download source code using Google Chrome

Same as you seen in Firefox browser.

Go to the Website address whose source code you want to download.

• Right-click on the page.
• Select View Page source, it open in another tab.
• Now again Right-click and click on Save As.. 
• Save the file as a .txt format or you can save page as .html format to browse it and then open it with Notepad to see source code.

Download source code using Microsoft Edge

Go to the Website address whose source code you want to download.

• Right-click on the page.
• Select View Page source, it open in another tab.
• Now again Right-click and click on Save As.
• Save the file as a .txt format or you can save page as .html format to browse it and then open it with Notepad to see source code.

Download source code using Safari 

For safari it is necessary to enable ‘develop a menu‘ from the menu bar after that follow the below steps:

• Go to a navigation bar click on safari and select preferences.
• Go to the Advanced tab.
• Check show develop menu in menu bar.
• After following above steps you can view source code 
• Right-click on the page.
• Select Show Page Source.
• Click on Wen Inspector, then click ‘command + A‘ to select all code, ‘command + c‘ to copy.
• Open TextEdit.
• Click ‘command + v; to paste code in TextEdit and save a page as .html format to browse it and then open it with Notepad to see source code.

Here you are done using the safari browser method also!!

Download Source Code of any site using Node.js

As TechDevilZone, promised you to get a detailed guide on ‘How to download entire source code of any website‘. Above you saw software method then browsers method, nowhere in this section you see ‘How can you download any website source code using Node.js‘.

Just follow the below steps carefully:

• Download & Install Node.js in your computer or laptop. 
• Downlaod Node.js
• Install the website-scraper module, to download an entire website resource to local system including all CSS, Images, Fonts, Javascripts etc.
• Run this command – npm install website-scraper
• Open your code editor, create a new index.js file(javascript) and copy below script and paste it to your editor javascript file.

Script:-

const scrape = require('website-scraper');
const websiteUrl = 'https://www.website-name/';
scrape({ 
    urls: [websiteUrl], 
    urlFilter: function (url) { 
        return url.indexOf(websiteUrl) === 0; 
    }, 
    recursive: true, 
    maxDepth: 50, 
    prettifyUrls: true, 
    filenameGenerator: 'bySiteStructure', 
    directory: './node-website' 
}).then((data) => { 
    console.log("Entire website succesfully downloaded"); 
}).catch((err) => { 
    console.log("An error ocurred", err); 
});

Make sure to enter your website URL present in the above script.

• Now execute that script in command prompt.

node index.js

It takes some time after executing successfully you will get a message in your command terminal.

Entire website successfully download

Note: We’re assuming you have basic knowledge of Node.js and you know how to install the package using the command line. 

Download source code of any website using Inspect only

This method is for only websites, not a web applications. Web applications are like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Follow below steps carefully:

1. Go to a website whose source code you want to download.
2. Now right-click anywhere and select Inspect element. Then at the right-side panel will open.
3. In the panel, click on ‘sources‘.
4. There will be a filename in a panel is “index“, see in Image.
5. Right-click on it and select ‘Save As‘, choose a location, give this file any name and use extension ‘.html‘.
6. In the sources, there will be CSS and JavaScript files. So, do step 5 again.
7. For CSS file use extension ‘.css‘ and for JavaScript use extension ‘.js‘.

Try this method in a different browser, for me, I do it in Edge browser.

Note:

All the above methods are only for educational purposes. Some websites include copyright. TechDevilZone advise not to copy source code to use it on your website unless explicitly allowed.

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After downloading the source code of a website on your hard drive, you can open the website source code with a code editor or just by using different browsers. It’s very simple, just make sure you have choosen right extension for a file name.

Conclusion

Now you know how to download any website source code using a third party and with your browser. In this article, you have seen all methods through which we can download any website source code is free of cost, paid software, using browsers, Nodejs, and much more. These are the best methods of 2023, I hope you are using them for educational purposes only not for any type of illegal purpose.

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