Monday, October 20, 2008

Downloading an Entire Web Site with wget

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/downloading-entire-web-site-wget

If you ever need to download an entire Web site, perhaps for off-line viewing, wget can do the
job—for example:

$ wget \
--recursive \
--no-clobber \
--page-requisites \
--html-extension \
--convert-links \
--restrict-file-names=windows \
--domains website.org \
--no-parent \
www.website.org/tutorials/html/

This command downloads the Web site www.website.org/tutorials/html/.

The options are:

  • --recursive: download the entire Web site.

  • --domains website.org: don't follow links outside website.org.

  • --no-parent: don't follow links outside the directory tutorials/html/.

  • --page-requisites: get all the elements that compose the page (images, CSS and so on).

  • --html-extension: save files with the .html extension.

  • --convert-links: convert links so that they work locally, off-line.

  • --restrict-file-names=windows: modify filenames so that they will work in Windows as well.

  • --no-clobber: don't overwrite any existing files (used in case the download is interrupted and
    resumed).

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