[thelist] Downloading a whole site

Ned Baldessin ned-ml at idsland.com
Mon Jul 28 10:33:03 CDT 2003


> > Favourite tool for downloading a whole site?
> WGET. It's a Unix command line tool but it's available for Windows as
> well (as a pre-compiled binary). It's incredibly powerful but since
> it's command line only it can be a bit difficult to use; that said,
> the learning curve is well worth it. You can set it up to suck down
> whole sites recursively, rewriting relative URLs and replicating
> directory structures all with a single (if lengthy) command. There's
> also excellent documentation available for it.

I'll second that one.

And the only option that you need to know to mirror a site is 'm', as in
:

# wget -m http://mysite.tld



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