What is WebZIP?

WebZIP is a website downloading utility developed by Spidersoft, primarily used for offline browsing and archiving of web content. It operates by crawling websites, following links, and downloading pages, images, and other resources to a user's local storage. WebZIP identifies itself with the user agent string 'webzip' or similar variants. While not a search engine crawler, it is often detected in web server logs as it systematically requests multiple resources from a site. Its main use case is for users who wish to view websites without an active internet connection or to create local backups of web content. WebZIP respects robots.txt directives, but its activity can resemble that of automated bots, which sometimes leads to it being blocked by web administrators. The tool was more popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and is now considered somewhat outdated, but its user agent may still appear in logs from legacy users or automated scripts.

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