How do I execute "wget" to archive whole sites for offline browsing

I've never used it myself, but you can download wget from here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/13923&vid=59439

And you can obtain its documentation from here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/index.html#documentation

To run wget, it looks like you need to run it from the Terminal program as it doesn't appear to be interactive.

Good luck

Bob

PS: FWIW, macs ship with curl which appears to do the same thing. You can get documentation about curl by starting Terminal and typing "man curl"

Hi don

The Terminal program can normally be found in the Applications/Utilities folder. When it opens, it gives you a Unix "shell" into which you can type Unix commands (like "man curl" plus return). The Terminal gives you the best possible control over your computer, but at a cost of having to learn Unix shell commands. If you get hooked on it, then any book on Unix will get you started, plus there are numerous web sites, and there's a specialist Unix forum in these discussions who will give you more detailed help.

Bob

That sure sounds like my post. I was going to respond with my alias:

alias getsite='wget -k -r -N --random-wait -np'

Which looks a whole lot like yours.

Yes. This is definitely in the Terminal. It is located in /Applications/Utilities.
The alias command above is a line in my .bash_profile file in my home directory. It cans all sorts of similar commands to do cool stuff in the terminal. Once you add the above line to your .bash_profile file, open a new terminal window, and type getsite http://www.apple.com and sit back and let it work.

The other day I was travelling and had a very slow connection. I had to adjust the command like this ' getsite --reject=bz2,mov,gz,dmg,swf http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/' so that is wouldn't try to download huge files.

You don't want to use curl. The curl program is more low-level and is more suited to software development and testing. If you are just starting to learn the terminal, use wget for now. Later, when you learn about standard output redirection, you can try curl.

I always do 'cd ~/Sites' before using wget. Then, I can just go to 'http://mymachine.local/~jdaniel/www.apple.com' to view archived sites.

A bit off topic, but you might want to try httrack. Works great for mirroring sites for offline browsing. Loads of options for downloading sites. It is command-line only for Mac OS X but very well documented and easy to use. It can be used interactively in the terminal by typing 'httrack' without any parameters.

http://www.httrack.com

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