[clue-tech] Website Mirroring Software

Angelo Bertolli angelo.bertolli at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 11:56:22 MDT 2009


chris fedde wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Greg Knaddison
> <greg.knaddison at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Shawn Perry <redmop924 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Does anyone know of a good piece of software to mirror a website and
>>> make it locally browse-able with the ability to limit how far it
>>> travels to?
>> I've used "wget --mirror" in the past.  From the man page:
>>
> 
> I'll second the recommendation to use wget.  But remember that it will
> get a static copy of the website.
> all dynamic content will be captured in static views.

The way you limit depth is with -l, and there are other options to
indicate whether or not you want to cross over to other sites, etc.  I
usually just use something like `wget -crl 2 URL`  -c is a good option
to use.

Angelo


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