How to download all files (but not HTML) from a website using wget?
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How to use wget
and get all the files from website?
I need all files except the webpage files like HTML, PHP, ASP etc.
Ubuntu Solutions
Solution 1 - Ubuntu
To filter for specific file extensions:
wget -A pdf,jpg -m -p -E -k -K -np http://site/path/
Or, if you prefer long option names:
wget --accept pdf,jpg --mirror --page-requisites --adjust-extension --convert-links --backup-converted --no-parent http://site/path/
This will mirror the site, but the files without jpg
or pdf
extension will be automatically removed.
Solution 2 - Ubuntu
This downloaded the entire website for me:
wget --no-clobber --convert-links --random-wait -r -p -E -e robots=off -U mozilla http://site/path/
Solution 3 - Ubuntu
wget -m -p -E -k -K -np http://site/path/
man page will tell you what those options do.
wget
will only follow links, if there is no link to a file from the index page, then wget
will not know about its existence, and hence not download it. ie. it helps if all files are linked to in web pages or in directory indexes.
Solution 4 - Ubuntu
I was trying to download zip files linked from Omeka's themes page - pretty similar task. This worked for me:
wget -A zip -r -l 1 -nd http://omeka.org/add-ons/themes/
-A
: only accept zip files-r
: recurse-l 1
: one level deep (ie, only files directly linked from this page)-nd
: don't create a directory structure, just download all the files into this directory.
All the answers with -k
, -K
, -E
etc options probably haven't really understood the question, as those as for rewriting HTML pages to make a local structure, renaming .php
files and so on. Not relevant.
To literally get all files except .html
etc:
wget -R html,htm,php,asp,jsp,js,py,css -r -l 1 -nd http://yoursite.com
Solution 5 - Ubuntu
You may try:
wget --user-agent=Mozilla --content-disposition --mirror --convert-links -E -K -p http://example.com/
Also you can add:
-A pdf,ps,djvu,tex,doc,docx,xls,xlsx,gz,ppt,mp4,avi,zip,rar
to accept the specific extensions, or to reject only specific extensions:
-R html,htm,asp,php
or to exclude the specific areas:
-X "search*,forum*"
If the files are ignored for robots (e.g. search engines), you've to add also: -e robots=off
Solution 6 - Ubuntu
I know this topic is very old, but I fell here at 2021 looking for a way to download all Slackware files from a mirror (http://ftp.slackware-brasil.com.br/slackware64-current/).
After reading all the answers, the best option for me was:
wget -m -p -k -np -R '*html*,*htm*,*asp*,*php*,*css*' -X 'www' http://ftp.slackware-brasil.com.br/slackware64-current/
I had to use *html*
instead of just html
to avoid downloads like index.html.tmp
.
Please forgive me for resurrecting this topic, I thought it might be useful to someone other than me, and my doubt is very similar to @Aniruddhsinh's question.
Solution 7 - Ubuntu
Try this. It always works for me
wget --mirror -p --convert-links -P ./LOCAL-DIR WEBSITE-URL
Solution 8 - Ubuntu
wget -m -A * -pk -e robots=off www.mysite.com/
this will download all type of files locally and point to them from the html file and it will ignore robots file