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Graph View

The graph view shows a crawl as a living network: every captured page is a node, every link between two of its pages a connection. It makes visible what a list never can: how the pages of a website hang together.

What the graph shows

The graph view: the pages of a crawl as nodes, links as connections.

Each node is one captured page of the crawl, drawn larger the more neighbors it has, with the page the crawl started from highlighted. A connection appears wherever one saved page links to another page of the same crawl. The header counts how many pages and links you are looking at, and warns you while a crawl is still running, because links can still be incomplete then.

The graph is built entirely from your offline archive. Nothing is loaded from the web to draw it.

Opening the graph

The graph belongs to a crawl, so you open it wherever one is in front of you. macOS select a crawl folder in the sidebar and press the Graph button in the toolbar, or use View → Graph View (⇧⌘G). It works while you are reading a page of a crawl too, and esc closes it again. iOS open a crawl and tap the graph button in the navigation bar, or pick Graph View from the Options menu while reading one of its pages.

Zoom and pan freely: scroll or pinch to zoom, drag the canvas to move around, drag a single node to pull it out of the tangle. Hovering a node highlights its direct neighbors and dims everything else. A click opens that page in the viewer: on the Mac the graph closes as the page opens, on iPhone and iPad the page slides in on top and Back returns you to the graph.

The controls in the corner zoom in and out, fit the whole graph on screen and toggle the labels. Under Graph Settings you can change node size and node color, and switch to full page titles.

Connections are more than decoration: they follow the real links inside your saved pages, recovered from the archive itself. That makes the graph a map of how you can move through the crawl offline, from page to page, the same way you once browsed the site live. Gaps are easy to spot too: a page hanging off on its own shows you where the crawl stopped short.