How to download a website in Linux (wget)

By mkyong | Updated: August 30, 2012

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The wget is a useful command to download a website in Linux. For example , wget [url].

[mkyong@snake ~]$ wget -r -p -k -E http://www.google.com
--2009-07-19 14:07:27--  http://www.google.com/
Resolving www.google.com... 64.233.189.104
Connecting to www.google.com|64.233.189.104|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://www.google.com.my/ [following]
--2009-07-19 14:07:27--  http://www.google.com.my/
Resolving www.google.com.my... 64.233.189.147
Connecting to www.google.com.my|64.233.189.147|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `www.google.com.my/index.html'

    [ <=>                                   ] 5,742       --.-K/s   in 0.05s   

2009-07-19 14:07:27 (102 KB/s) - `www.google.com.my/index.html' saved [5742]

FINISHED --2009-07-19 14:07:27--
Downloaded: 1 files, 5.6K in 0.05s (102 KB/s)
Converting www.google.com.my/index.html... 0-12
Converted 1 files in 0.001 seconds.

Above command will download the “google.com” website into our local drive.

Wget options explanation

-r, –recursive specify recursive download.
-k, –convert-links make links in downloaded HTML point to local files.
-p, –page-requisites get all images, etc. needed to display HTML page.
-E, –html-extension save HTML documents with `.html’ extension.

There still have many useful options in wget , please issue man wget or wget –help to explore more about the other options.