- HTTrack is great, it's got lots of useful features including sophisticated file type download options and it’s easy to install at least, easy under Windows (where it’s known as WinHTTrack).
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HTTrack has been very popular on Windows for cloning a website. But with macOS, many of you do not know how to install and use HTTrack on Mac. Yes, you have to install 2 operating systems in parallel to use HTTrack. But after reading this article, you will know How to use HTTrack on Mac extremely professional, “like a coder”.
Using WGET to download whole website
Recently, I came about some e-books that are html only (sucks yeah), but they are good books and I want to really have them locally. So I need to download ’em.
I know. There are GUI tools for it. But what if you are stuck in a terminal only server? I am behind a very strict proxy, but I have a server that I can FTP into and the server is not behind the proxy. But the server is terminal only, hence the wget option.
wget can download the whole internet if you so wish. and it’s simple
wget -r url
Now before you go there are a few caveats.
The sites will be downloaded, but will not be really suitable for offline viewing. To enable relative links do
wget -rk url
The above will convert the files to be suitable for offline viewing as necessary. You might want wget to keep the original files.
wget -rkK url
Also another caveat. This option will only download the html file. To tell wget to download all files necessary to display the page properly (images, sounds, linked css etc) use
wget -rkp url
Again, don’t go yet. The default level of links to follow is 5. This might be too much (or too small in case your plan is to download the whole internets). you can specify the link level thus
wget -rkpl 5 url
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Finally, you might want wget to do all the hard work of downloading the internet and delete the files immediately after.
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wget -r –delete-after url
man wget
is also a good place to start learning more about the things that wget can do.
That’s it. Happy interwebs downloading.