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Download an entire website

Terminal - Download an entire website
wget --random-wait -r -p -e robots=off -U mozilla http://www.example.com
2009-02-17 22:53:07
User: starchox
Functions: wget
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Download an entire website

-p parameter tells wget to include all files, including images.

-e robots=off you don't want wget to obey by the robots.txt file

-U mozilla as your browsers identity.

--random-wait to let wget chose a random number of seconds to wait, avoid get into black list.

Other Useful wget Parameters:

--limit-rate=20k limits the rate at which it downloads files.

-b continues wget after logging out.

-o $HOME/wget_log.txt logs the output

Add to favourites | Report as malicious

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What others think

I think some builds of wget have the -m (mirror) option available as well.

Comment by joem86 222 weeks ago

The given command does not download an entire web site. It downloads a single page, plus any images and such on that page.

For this functionality, the '-r' is not necessary, and the random wait generally isn't either.

Comment by ToyKeeper 202 weeks and 5 days ago

Ignore previous comment. Apparently the default recursion depth is now 5, which is often enough to download entire sites. However, if you want to be sure, add a '-l 0' to remove the recursion depth limit.

Comment by ToyKeeper 202 weeks and 5 days ago

From the man page, useful for offline browsing:

-k

--convert-links

After the download is complete, convert the links in the document to make them suitable for local viewing. This affects not only the visible hyperlinks, but any part of the document that links to external content,

such as embedded images, links to style sheets, hyperlinks to non-HTML content, etc.

Comment by piccobello 96 weeks and 2 days ago

-p is not necessary if you're using -r

-K will keep copies of original files before modifying links with -k

-N for timestamps: useful for refreshing a mirror, only downloading new stuff

Comment by johnraff 79 weeks ago

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