For offline Javadoc from zip file rather than extracting it.

Why this approach?

This is already answered which uses extracted zip data but it consumes more memory than simple zip file.

Comparison of zip file and extracted data.

jdk-6u25-fcs-bin-b04-apidocs.zip  --->  ~57 MB
after extracting this zip file  --->  ~264 MB !

So this approach saves my approx. 200 MB.

How to use apidocs.zip?

1.Open Windows -> Preferences

2.Select jre from Installed JREs then Click Edit...

3.Select all .jar files from JRE system libraries then Click Javadoc Location...

4.Browse for apidocs.zip file for Archive path and set Path within archive as shown above. That's it.

5.Put cursor on any class name or method name and hit Shift + F2

1. First, make sure they don't already offer an download in zip form or similar.

2. Then, make sure you are actually allowed to do this (this may depend on where you live, and on any conditions mentioned on the web site from where you want to pull this).

3. Then, have a look at the Wget tool. It is part of the GNU system, thus included in many Linux distributions, but also available for Windows and Mac, I suppose.

Something like this works for me:

wget --no-parent --recursive --level inf --page-requisites --wait=1 \
   https://epaul.github.io/jsch-documentation/simple.javadoc/

(without the line break; it should be escaped by the \ backslash here).

Look up what each option does in the manual before trying this.

If you want to do this repeatedly, look into the --mirror option. For downloading other websites, --convert-links might also be useful, but I found that is not needed for Javadocs, which usually have the correct absolute and relative links.

This downloads lots of the same copy of the index.html file with appended ?... names (for the FRAMES links on each page). You can remove these files after downloading by adding the --reject 'index.html\?*' option, but they still will be downloaded first (and checked for recursive links). I did not yet find out how to avoid downloading them at all. (See this related question on Server Fault.)

Maybe adding the right recursion level would help here (I didn't try).

After downloading, you might want to zip the resulting directory to take less disk space. Use the zip tool of your choice for this.