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wget URLS
# Download
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| Command | Input | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Attempts | Set number of attempts to connect to URL(s). Specify 0 for infinite retrying. Default: 20. More Info | |
| No Clobber | If deactivated, downloading the same file in the same directory will result in the original copy of file being preserved and the second copy being named ‘file.1’. More Info | |
| Unlink | Force Wget to unlink file instead of clobbering existing file. More Info | |
| Resume | Continue downloading a single unfinished file. More Info | |
| Progression Indicator | The type of progress indicator you wish to display. Default: bar. More Info | |
| Force Show Progression Indicator | Force Wget to display the progress bar in any verbosity. More Info | |
| Time-Stamping | For each file, Wget will check whether a local file of the same name exists. If it does, and the remote file is not newer, Wget will not download it. If the local file does not exist, or the sizes of the files do not match, Wget will download the remote file no matter what the time-stamps say. More Info | |
| Limit Rate | Limit the download speed. Bytes (default), Kilobytes with the ‘k’ suffix, or Megabytes with the ‘m’ suffix. More Info | |
| Wait | Wait the specified number of seconds between each download. Seconds(default), Minutes = "m", Hours = "h", Days = "d". More Info | |
| Retry Wait | Wait between retries of failed downloads in seconds. More Info | |
| Random Wait | This option causes the time between requests to vary between 0.5 and 1.5 times wait seconds, where wait was specified using the ‘--wait’ option. More Info | |
| Quota | Only works when downloading more than one file. Specify download quota for automatic retrievals. Value can be specified in Bytes (default), Kilobytes (with ‘k’ suffix), or Megabytes (with ‘m’ suffix). More Info | |
| Spider | Wget will behave as a Web spider, which means it will not download the pages, just check that they are there. Not as functional as a real web spider. More Info | |
| Username | Username for both FTP and HTTP file retrieval. More Info | |
| Password | Password for both FTP and HTTP file retrieval. More Info |
# Directory
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| Command | Input | Description |
|---|---|---|
| No Directories | Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving recursively. With this option turned on, all files will get saved to the current directory, without clobbering. More Info | |
| Force Directories | Create a hierarchy of directories, even if one would not have been created otherwise. More Info | |
| No Host Directories | Disable generation of host-prefixed directories. More Info | |
| Save File(s) Location | Where to save the files. If directory(ies) non-existent, one will be created. Default: ./. More Info | |
| Cut Directory(ies) | Ignore the number of directory components. Ex: ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/. With '--cut-dirs=1' it will now save locally as ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/ More Info |
# File & Debug
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| Command | Input | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Append Output Logs | Append all messages to a logfile. If logfile does not exist, a new file is created. More Info | |
| Debug | Turn on debug output, which contains various information important to the developers of Wget if it does not work properly. More Info | |
| Quiet | Turn off Wget’s output. More Info | |
| Report Speed | Output bandwidth (in bits). More Info | |
| Input File | Read URLs from a local or external file. If this function is used, no URL(s) needs be present on the command line. More Info | |
| Config File | Specify the location of a startup file you wish to use instead of the default one(s). More Info |
# HTTP(S)
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| Command | Input | Description |
|---|---|---|
| No Cache | Disable server-side cache. More Info | |
| Compress File | Wget asks the server to compress the file using the gzip compression format. gzip is the only available format. More Info | |
| Adjust Extension | If a file of type, 'text/html' is downloaded and the URL does not end with the regexp, ‘\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?’, the suffix ‘.html’ will be appended to the local filename. More Info | |
| Ignore Content-Length | Ignore Content-Length header. More Info | |
| Max Redirects | Maximum number of redirects to follow for a resource. Default: 20. More Info | |
| Change User-Agent | Change the client's identity in the HTTP server. By default, Wget will identify as Wget/current_version. More Info | |
| Retry on Host Error | Consider host errors as non-fatal. More Info | |
| No Checking Certificate | Do not check the server's certificate against recognizable ones and continue downloading, regardless if the verification fails. More Info | |
| HTTPS Only | While in recursive mode, only follow HTTPS links. More Info |
# FTP(S)
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| Command | Input | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Don't Remove Listings | Don’t remove the temporary listing files generated by FTP retrievals. Not removing them can be useful for debugging purposes, or when you want to be able to easily check on the contents of remote server directories. More Info | |
| FTP Fallback | Fallback to FTP if FTPS is not supported by targeted server. More Info |
# Recursive
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| Command | Input | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Recursion | Turn on recursive retrieving. More Info | |
| Depth Level | Specify how far to go during recursion. Default: 5. More Info | |
| Convert Links | Convert all links a document to make them suitable for local viewing. Links that are not downloaded will use the Internet address Url instead. Ex: https://cookie.com/img.gif. More Info | |
| Mirror | Turn on all options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and keeps FTP directory listings. More Info | |
| Page Requisites | Download all files necessary to properly display a given HTML page. This includes inlined images, sounds, and referenced stylesheets. More Info |
# Accept/Reject
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| Command | Input | Description |
|---|---|---|
| File(s) to Accept | A list of file extensions to download during recursive retrieval. If ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘[’ or ‘]’ is typed, input will be treated as a pattern instead. More Info | |
| File(s) to Reject | Defaults | Download all files except the specified extensions in the list. If ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘[’ or ‘]’ is typed, input will be treated as a pattern instead. More Info |
| No Parent | Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving recursively. More Info |