How to Get the Full Source Code of a Website

For beginners, the world of programming is vast, with many programming languages and many skills a programmer must know to do the job correctly. How to get the source of a web page is one of the most searched keywords on Google. So this article MONA Media will show you the simplest and fastest way to get all of a website's code.

What is source code?

By definition, source code is the basic component of computer programs, written by programmers in a given programming language.

A programmer can write a line of C code in Microsoft Notepad and save that command in a text file. That text file is considered to contain source code.

More specifically, source code is a set of commands that perform some action, like pressing Enter or clicking an icon. When a user triggers an action, the command runs automatically and returns the result it was programmed to produce.

Note: the term source code does not apply to script languages such as JavaScript because they have only one form of code. You can view this page's source code by pressing F12.

There are 2 types of source code by license: open-source platforms and proprietary source code. Software you use every day, such as Microsoft Office, has Microsoft's proprietary source code. Companies that choose WordPress website design are choosing an open-source platform for their website. With open source, users can modify it to suit their own purposes.

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How to get a website's full HTML source code

First, pick a website to copy from, then follow these steps:

Step 1: Right-click the screen and choose "View page source". Another way is to press the key combination Ctrl + U. Your screen then switches to a tab containing the HTML code.

Step 2: Select all the HTML code using 2 methods

• Method 1: Once the HTML code is on screen, press the key combination Ctrl + A to select everything.

• Method 2: Hold the left mouse button on the first character at the top and drag down to select the HTML code.

Step 3: To save the HTML on your computer, create a folder to store it. After choosing the folder, right-click and create a "Text Document".

After creating it, save it as an .html file and rename it code.html.

Next, right-click code.html and choose "Edit with Notepad++”.

Step 4: Then copy the code from the tab and paste it in. Finally, save the file, and you have successfully taken the HTML of a web page. That completes scraping the HTML of a website.

This article has shown you how to get all of a website's code quickly and effectively. It is not hard, but follow each step carefully to get it right. Come back to this method whenever you need to get a website's source code.

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