2016

For instances where wget doesn't work or is not installed, use curl -O as a replacement for wget

wget can be used to get a single file from a website, or to download the entire site if you know how. Here some examples of using wget.

To get a single file from a website, and save it using it's default name, use:

  wget http://www.cameraangle.co.uk/index.php
  
  This will download the file index.php from wwww.cameraangle.co.uk

To get a single file from a website, and save it using a new name, use:

  wget http://www.cameraangle.co.uk/index.php -O index.txt
  
  This will download the file index.php from wwww.cameraangle.co.uk and save it as index.txt

This does depend on the site supporting resuming.

  wget ‐‐continue example.com/big.file.iso

  wget ‐‐continue ‐‐timestamping wordpress.org/latest.zip

Download a web page with all assets – like stylesheets and inline images – that are required to properly display the web page offline.

  wget ‐‐page-requisites ‐‐span-hosts ‐‐convert-links ‐‐adjust-extension http://example.com/dir/file

Download an entire website including all the linked pages and files

  wget ‐‐execute robots=off ‐‐recursive ‐‐no-parent ‐‐continue ‐‐no-clobber http://example.com/

Download all the MP3 files from a sub directory

  wget ‐‐level=1 ‐‐recursive ‐‐no-parent ‐‐accept mp3,MP3 http://example.com/mp3/

Download all images from a website in a common folder in a common folder

  wget ‐‐directory-prefix=files/pictures ‐‐no-directories ‐‐recursive ‐‐no-clobber ‐‐accept jpg,gif,png,jpeg http://example.com/images/

Download the PDF documents from a website through recursion but stay within specific domains.

  wget ‐‐mirror ‐‐domains=abc.com,files.abc.com,docs.abc.com ‐‐accept=pdf http://abc.com/

Original article at http://www.labnol.org/software/wget-command-examples/28750/