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Xavier Roche 4f49eec86b The docs and the site disagree on what HTTrack is called (#1114)
The site says "Free software offline browser", these pages said "Open Source
offline browser", and the French tagline has always been "Aspirateur de sites
web libre", so one language already made the claim the other did not. Xavier
picked the site's wording for the web surfaces.

The lang/ catalogs keep theirs: they are the GUI, the English value is their
join key, and 17 carry a real translation that changing it would orphan.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Roche <roche@httrack.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-10 07:41:45 +02:00

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
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<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<meta name="description" content="Using HTTrack from a script, from the callbacks, or through the libhttrack library.">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="doc.css">
<script src="doc.js" defer></script>
<!-- /doc-chrome:head -->
<title>Programming with HTTrack</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- doc-chrome:top -->
<a class="skip" href="#main">Skip to content</a>
<header class="masthead">
<img src="images/wordmark.svg" width="400" height="36" alt="HTTrack Website Copier">
<div class="tagline">Free software offline browser</div>
</header>
<div class="wrap">
<nav class="toc" aria-label="Documentation">
<h2>On this page</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="#programming">Programming</a></li>
<li><a href="#technical-references">Technical references</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Start here</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="guide.html">Interface guide</a></li>
<li><a href="faq.html">FAQ and troubleshooting</a></li>
<li><a href="abuse.html">Using HTTrack responsibly</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Command line</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="cmdguide.html">Command-line guide</a></li>
<li><a href="httrack.man.html">Option reference</a></li>
<li><a href="filters.html">Filter syntax</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>Developers</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="dev.html" aria-current="page" class="here">Programming</a></li>
<li><a href="library.html">libhttrack API</a></li>
<li><a href="plug.html">Callbacks</a></li>
<li><a href="scripting.html">Scripting</a></li>
<li><a href="cache.html">Cache format</a></li>
<li><a href="changes.html">Change report format</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>More</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="fcguide.html">Users Guide (3.10)</a></li>
<li><a href="contact.html">Contact and credits</a></li>
<li><a href="index.html">All documentation</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
<main id="main">
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<h1>HTTrack Programming page</h1>
<br>
HTTrack can be used as a third-party program in batch files, or as library.
Depending on your needs, you may look:
<br><br>
<h3 id="programming">Programming</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="scripting.html">Simple use: scripting examples using the httrack commandline program</a></li><br>
You can use tens of options (see <tt>httrack --help</tt>) to control precisely the mirror, and used embedded commands in httrack.
<br><br>
<li><a href="plug.html">More complex use: plugging external C functions to the httrack library</a></li><br>
For advanced functions, you may have to use external C wrappers ; for example when adding advanced crawl features, such as "tuned" filestructure type
<br><i>Important note: please read the license information of httrack before developing add-ons</i><br />
See also the page <a href="plug_330.html">for versions prior to 3.41</a>
<br><br>
<li><a href="library.html">Advanced use: using the library</a></li><br>
The library can be used to write graphical GUIs for httrack, or to run mirrors from a program.
<br><i>Important note: please read the license information of httrack before developing add-ons</i>
</ul>
<h3 id="technical-references">Technical references</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="cache.html">Cache format</a></li><br>
HTTrack stores original HTML data and references to downloaded files in a cache, located in the hts-cache directory.
This page describes the HTTrack cache format.
<li><a href="changes.html">Change report format</a></li><br>
With --changes, HTTrack writes hts-changes.json describing what the crawl left new, changed, unchanged and gone
compared to the previous mirror. This page describes that file.
</ul>
<br><br>
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</main>
</div>
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<footer>&copy; 1998-2026 Xavier Roche &amp; other contributors - Web Design: Leto Kauler.</footer>
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