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I have a problem with the following wget command:

wget -nd -r -l 10 http://web.archive.org/web/20110726051510/http://feedparser.org/docs/

It should download recursively all of the linked documents on the original web but it downloads only two files (index.html and robots.txt).

How can I achieve recursive download of this web?

xralf
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wget by default honours the robots.txt standard for crawling pages, just like search engines do, and for archive.org, it disallows the entire /web/ subdirectory. To override, use -e robots=off,

wget -nd -r -l 10 -e robots=off http://web.archive.org/web/20110726051510/http://feedparser.org/docs/
rubo77
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Ulrich Schwarz
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  • Thank you. Is there some option to store every link only once? Maybe I should decrease 10 to lower number, but it's hard to guess. Now there is a file introduction.html, introduction.html.1, introduction.html.2 and I rather ended the process. – xralf Nov 25 '11 at 18:14
  • And the links are directing to the web. Is the --mirror option for the links to direct to the filesystem? – xralf Nov 25 '11 at 18:16
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    @xralf: well, you are using -nd, so different index.htmls are put in the same directory, and without -k, you'll not get rewriting of the links. – Ulrich Schwarz Nov 25 '11 at 18:35
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$ wget --random-wait -r -p -e robots=off -U Mozilla \
    http://web.archive.org/web/20110726051510/http://feedparser.org/docs/

Downloads recursively the content of the url.

--random-wait - wait between 0.5 to 1.5 seconds between requests.
-r - turn on recursive retrieving.
-e robots=off - ignore robots.txt.
-U Mozilla - set the "User-Agent" header to "Mozilla". Though a better choice is a real User-Agent like "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)".

Some other useful options are:

--limit-rate=20k - limits download speed to 20kbps.
-o logfile.txt - log the downloads.
-l 0 - remove recursion depth (which is 5 by default).
--wait=1h - be sneaky, download one file every hour.
Nikhil Mulley
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