download a website

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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).