Tuesday, July 20, 2010

WGET

I don't have an internet connection @ home. I still want to browse websites. That leaves with only two options. Either Hack some wifi hotspot(That I'm seriously trying to), or download complete websites.

I've seriously tried HTTrack b4 for downloading websites.(http://www.httrack.com/), but it wasn't a great option, since it is can't get scripted websites.
I tried WGET today which I found in yahoo answers.

wget is the GNUs answer to downloading websites. Its simply awesome.
First I thought of compiling it in windows, which I'd figure out later. But you get the vs realese exe here (http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/)


I tried.. wget --help and found the following command useful for downloading the complete website

wget -A "*.exe" -r "http://nehe.gamedev.net/"