Wget

software to download web pages from commandline

• Limit the bandwidth of download (ex. to 60 kb).

wget --limit-rate=60k 

• resume downloading (Continue to download an incomplete file):

wget -c http://www.yourdomain.com/bigfile.bin

• Download into specified file name...

wget http://www.example.com -O index.html

• Mirror an entire website

wget -m -p -l 0 -E -k http://site

• and also

wget -k -l 0 -m -nh -r http://site

• and...

wget --mirror -w 2 -p --html-extension --convert-links http://site

• another one

wget -o wget.log --html-extension --restrict-file-names=windows --convert-links --recursive --level=inf --page-requisites --wait=0 --quota=inf --reject="*_form, *@*, sitemap, RSS" http://site

• -k

  • converts non-relative links to relative

  "-l 0"

  • recursion infinite

• exclude a directory:

--exclude-directories="directory1,dir2"

• for SSL encripted with certificate websites:

--no-check-certificate

• send authentication to apache:

--http-user=USER --http-password=PASSWD

• send authentication by post action (backslash to escape & from shell):

--post-data=authid=USER\&authpw=PASSWD