How To Download An Entire Web Site With wget

[George Underwood Edwards]

Just found this and am going to try it out...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/downloading-entire-web-site-wget

[agmg]

Interesting... Thanks for sharing George 

[Archie]

I don't think it's right to download entire websites or part thereof ... for whatever reason (unless you have permission). Most websites are copyrighted and are illegal. Of course, we can each do what we want to do. I'm not sure if there's a clear law on this but the action borders the line of theft. It is one thing to link to a feature on a website or even to print an article for reference but to download every single item on a website is just wrong.

My 2 cents.

[arjaybe]

This could be useful if it's your own website and you want to back it up.

[George Underwood Edwards]

Or for a web site that may get shut down.

[aguila]

Or for a web site that may get shut down.

+1

Or for your competitor's web site if you need material to sue them  

[The Chief]

Firefox will do the same thing.  Click Files/Save Page As and select Web Page, complete in the dropdown on the lower tight.

[George Underwood Edwards]

Firefox will do the same thing.  Click Files/Save Page As and select Web Page, complete in the dropdown on the lower tight.

That will grab one page. The wget method grabs the entire web site.

[The Chief]

Firefox will do the same thing.  Click Files/Save Page As and select Web Page, complete in the dropdown on the lower tight.

That will grab one page. The wget method grabs the entire web site.

Actually, it grabs anything linked to by the page - if you start with the main page (usually index.htm or index .html) it should grab every thing you can get to.    Including the folders they are in.

Yeah, may not get everything, but it should grab a functional copy.  Always has for me.