How to scrape an offline/localfile URL

[Gerco]

I have a local html file with dynamic html-subpages. How to scrape these pages as the webscraper URL demands for a new site http:\ instead of file:\ . Any work arounds?

[leemeng]

See:

Some valid URLs not accepted as start URL

This is a known limitation in WS. I don't know why it's there. It won't take localhost or file URLS. You can work around that by uploading your file to a web host or hosting it on a local web server, either one will need a FQDN. If you don't have a FQDN you can fake one just by adding it to the HOSTS file, e.g.: www.myfakeserver..net 127.0.0.1 Then just point WS to www.myfakeserver..net