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Downloading an Entire Web Site with wget

Sep 05, 2008  By Dashamir Hoxha
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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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its nice to read cool post

quran online's picture
Submitted by quran online (not verified) on Tue, 10/12/2010 - 14:29.

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How to view as a web page

Slagathor's picture
Submitted by Slagathor (not verified) on Fri, 10/01/2010 - 13:20.

I am now downloading a site, using the "wget -m" option, and there are all this files within a folder. How do I view it in a web browser? :)

Thanks

herif's picture
Submitted by herif (not verified) on Fri, 09/24/2010 - 00:58.

Thank you, for these helpful information
than you,

wget

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 09/19/2010 - 05:26.

I had make a script to dowload a html file from the website. But it takes all in the sense header , body footer like that .i want only certain text to be copied. can u help me

wGet script

s3nzo's picture
Submitted by s3nzo (not verified) on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 05:07.

Can you please post the full code

Thanks!

Mike T.'s picture
Submitted by Mike T. (not verified) on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 08:33.

Thanks a lot for posting this. I needed to get a backup of a website quickly and easily. Wget did the trick!

wget -m http://website.com

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 18:52.

More easy:

wget -m http://website.com

Mirroring website with - m Flag

Ahamed Bauani's picture
Submitted by Ahamed Bauani (not verified) on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 04:03.

Yes, weget has it's own built-in signal flag '-m' or '--mirror' which is easy to use.

wget -m http://basic-linux.bauani.org/

will give you the full website on your HDD.

But the script above his more powerful, as I can control the downloading speed. More important thing is if you are going to use -m option to a well maintained, you most probably got BAN. As you are ignoring roobts.txt , downloading files without any delay. Like if you found someone is downloading ALL of your files with speed, making high load on your web server, will you allow it?

Regards
Ahamed Bauani
Bauani's Technology Related Blog

Thank You for the Script

Ahamed Bauani's picture
Submitted by Ahamed Bauani (not verified) on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 04:07.

Ho, the main thing, Thanks to the writer of script, it is very useful to me or probably others.

Thanks again.
Ahamed Bauani

Please use example.com.

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 13:10.

Thanks a lot! I needed to mirror a site on our local LAN, and this kept me from having to re familiarize myself with the man page. But PLEASE use example.com for a placeholder domain name. It is reserved for exactly that purpose.

options that you should add to the main article

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Submitted by magi182 (not verified) on Wed, 08/26/2009 - 10:51.

It would be a VERY good idea to add:

--wait=9 --limit-rate=10K

to your command so you don't kill the server you are trying to download from.

the --wait option introduces a number of seconds to wait between download attempts, the --limit-rate limits the amount of the servers bandwidth you are sucking up. Both good ideas if you don't want to be blacklisted by the servers admin.

Thanks

Miri's picture
Submitted by Miri (not verified) on Fri, 07/24/2009 - 07:47.

What options of wget should I use to retrieve all the pages related to the links from a main search page ? I've been trying for days to achieve it, using Linux.

Faleminderit per postimin, ( tr - thanks for posting )

Good work

Arjun Pakrashi's picture
Submitted by Arjun Pakrashi (not verified) on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 07:13.

I was always finding suggestions on appropriate switches to be used when downloading a complete website. This piece of document was very helpful. Thanks and keep up the good work.

Great

partero's picture
Submitted by partero on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 17:52.

Very good instructions

My use

Luigimax's picture
Submitted by Luigimax (not verified) on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 17:39.

Just to start, this post is most helpfull. Dashamir Hoxha thanks alot!

the reason for writing this is when downloading multiple sites in sequence will take much time. so to easly download multiple sites i set this up. and yes it would be more efficent to put the pipe command in the scrpt file.

what im using it for: dowload multiple websites (manga specificly)

step 1: put the wget command in a script file (for ease of use)

#!/bin/bash
wget -r --page-requisites --convert-links --no-parent -l $2 -U Mozilla $1

ill call mine "meget"
run command: chmod +x meget
is what i put in mine. how to use: [script-name] [target website] [scan depth]

step 2:

make a file with all the websites you want to download - one per line. ill call mine "zone"

step 3: run command:

cat zone | xargs -n1 -P 3 -i ./meget {} 1000

to increase the number of parallel downloads change the 3 to whatever number you need. keep in mind not to have a list of 300 sites and download them all at once - this may cause problems

be sure to also set the 1000 number to the depth you need. in my case to download a 1500 page manga i need to set it upto 1500 or more.

when it is running it will only show one downlaod at a time. if still running it will always show something.

Just what I've been looking for

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Submitted by TsueDesu (not verified) on Tue, 09/09/2008 - 09:34.

Just this week I needed to make a site available offline so I can reference to it while working at home. And YaY!! I have wget and love using it already. However, I advise taking note of how wget is saving the files, if it's a site with lots of PHP pages, then you'll have to change the reference in every .php to .php.html ... Not to fear though, your computer can already do the hard work for you. Just type

grep -rl .php *.html | xargs perl -pi~ -e 's/.php/.php.html/'

et voila Your pages will open and link with out a hitch...really interesting and marvelous this Linux thing.

I know that your post is

Silvia's picture
Submitted by Silvia (not verified) on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 05:34.

I know that your post is quite old, but I just wanted to add that wget can convert the references to renamed files in downloaded pages with option -k (--convert-links). This option is also very useful if you haven't downloaded all the referenced files, check out its magic in the manual.

I know that your post is

Silvia's picture
Submitted by Silvia (not verified) on Thu, 08/19/2010 - 05:34.

I know that your post is quite old, but I just wanted to add that wget can convert the references to renamed files in downloaded pages with option -k (--convert-links). This option is also very useful if you haven't downloaded all the referenced files, check out it's magic in the manual.

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