Compared to other web robots...

There are a number of WWW robots that perform mirroring operations similar to Templeton. We have compared the features provided by some popular software packages to Templeton.

WebWhacker by The ForeFront Group, Inc. is a graphical Windows-based application for retrieving web documents. This commercial application has a crippled shareware release for users to try before they buy.

Web G.R.A.B. by Asbjorn Pettersen is an OS/2 based PM application. It is an early beta release and is provided as freeware. We have evaluated the current release, version 0.22. It should be noted that this application is still an early beta and crashes occasionally. It is also difficult to use.

GetURL by James Burton is a simple HTML retrieval program for use in scripts. The largest drawback with this application is it's inability to retrieve multiple documents.

Supported Operating Systems WebWhacker(1) GetURL Web G.R.A.B. Templeton
OS/2 Win-OS/2 Yes Yes Yes
Windows 3.1 Yes No No No
Windows95 Yes No No No
Linux No No No Soon
SunOS/Solaris No No No Yes
Other Unix Variances No No No Yes
Retrieval WebWhacker GetURL Web G.R.A.B. Templeton
Link rewriting Yes No No Yes
Automatic Retrieval Yes No Yes(2) Yes
Image Retrieval Yes Yes Yes Yes
ImageMap Retrieval No No No CERN and NCSA formats only
Long file name support Win95 only Yes Yes Yes
Converts to FAT if required No No No Yes
Run other applications on the retrieved files No No No Yes
Restrictions WebWhacker GetURL Web G.R.A.B. Templeton
Depth restriction Yes No Depth of 0 or 1 only Yes
Host restriction Yes No No Yes
Path restriction Yes No No Yes
Domain restriction No No No Yes
Robot exclusion No No No Yes
Logging WebWhacker GetURL Web G.R.A.B. Templeton
Log files Yes No Yes Yes
Remote server mapping No No No Yes
Server identification No No No Yes
Log errors Yes No Yes Yes
Other features WebWhacker GetURL Web G.R.A.B. Templeton
Generate mailing lists No No No Yes
Variable sleep durations No Yes No Yes
User additions while retrieving Yes No Yes Yes
HTML corrections No No Yes Yes
Spoofing No No No Yes
Proxy support Yes No No Yes
Usable from scripts No Yes Yes Yes
Graphical interface Yes No Yes No
Password support No No No No
Supported protocols HTTP HTTP, Gopher, NNTP, FTP HTTP HTTP
Notes:

(1) Comparison based on documentation only.

(2) Although the documentation says it supports this option, we could not get it to work.


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Document revision: 26 Oct. 1996 for Templeton 1.780 beta
Copyright 1996 N.A. Krawetz
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