Possible to save an offline copy of a web page in an Access record somehow?

[raindog308]

Short version: I'd like to save offline copies of web pages so I can browse them when I pull up the associated record.

Longer version:

I'm building an art morgue - that is, a reference database for visual artists. It's all 3D art, most of which is purchased from various online vendors.

Unfortunately,

1. In the .zip or whatever you buy, there often aren't pre-rendered "here's what it looks like" pics. So five years from now, you don't know what "CoolClothes.zip" actually contains.

2. Vendors are notorious for disappearing or changing versions or changing web layout, so just a link to a web page works today but might not five years from now.

So what I wanted to do was save the web page in an offline, browsable form (kind of like "Save web page complete" in any major browser, or what wget -k does). I don't want just a link - I want to save all the pictures, text, etc. Ideally, when someone creates a record, they can paste a URL and Access goes and downloads the page...worst case, they have to "save web page as" from their browser and attach it someway.



The goal is so that five years from now they can pull up the record and the page as it was when we acquired the object/art is displayed.

Is this possible? I'm using Access 2010 but can upgrade to 2013.

To be clear - I'm not interested in serving this pages out of a web server at all.

Thanks!

[rpeare]

Why not save an image of the website as a picture file, then you don't have to mess with outdated code at all you just have a picture of exactly what the page looked like at the time in question.

You can do that with a simple print screen and paste/save to MS paint or other similar utility (Shift-PrtScrn or Ctrl-PrtScrn depending on what you want to do) Then you can save the images locally and store the location of the file in your database instead of saving the image.