How to use wget, examples

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*lotesi (2010-04-27)

How to use wget, examples

Quite often one has to use the wget command in SSH on a Linux server, but the options are not always well known while they offer a quite large control, here are a few examples on how to use wget :

To download via a ftp server

wget -r l4 ftp://username:password(at)mysite.com/



To download a file with no special character in url

wget http://www.mysite.com/forum.html



To resume a download

wget -c http://www.mysite.com/forum.html



To convert all absolute links to relative ones 

wget -k http://www.mysite.com/



To download a file with a special character "&" in url

wget "http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=forum&discussion=299"



To download all associated files as well

wget -p http://www.mysite.com/forum.html



To download a complete website

wget -r http://www.mysite.com/



To specify the filename after downloading it

wget --output-document=forum.html http://www.mysite.com/index.php?page=forum



To limit the speed of the download

wget --limit-rate=20k http://www.mysite.com/



To download files with a particular extension

wget -A.htm http://www.mysite.com/



To download urls from a list in a file

wget -imy_url.txt



To download images jpg in a list of url

wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off -imy_images.txt

If you know other interesting examples for wget, feel free to post it here...

*reloci (2010-10-05 02:22:22)
How to use wget, examples

I need help. Im using WGET on Windows 7, however I could not find the final file, I mean I dont know where the file containing the downloaded data is located. Can you help me_

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