Wpull is a Wget-compatible (or remake/clone/replacement/alternative) web downloader and crawler.
Notable Features:
Written in Python: lightweight, modifiable, robust, & scriptable
Graceful stopping; on-disk database resume
PhantomJS & youtube-dl integration (experimental)
Install
Wpull uses Python 3.
Once Python is installed, download Wpull from PyPI using pip:
pip3 install wpull
For detailed installation instructions and potential caveats, please see https://wpull.readthedocs.io/en/master/install.html.
Example Commands
To download the About page of Google.com:
wpull google.com/about
To archive a website:
wpull billy.blogsite.example \
--warc-file blogsite-billy \
--no-check-certificate \
--no-robots --user-agent "InconspiuousWebBrowser/1.0" \
--wait 0.5 --random-wait --waitretry 600 \
--page-requisites --recursive --level inf \
--span-hosts-allow linked-pages,page-requisites \
--escaped-fragment --strip-session-id \
--sitemaps \
--reject-regex "/login\.php" \
--tries 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-dns-error \
--timeout 60 --session-timeout 21600 \
--delete-after --database blogsite-billy.db \
--quiet --output-file blogsite-billy.log
To see all options:
wpull --help
Documentation
Documentation is located at https://wpull.readthedocs.io/. Please have a look at it before using Wpull’s advanced features.
Help
Need help? Please see our Help page which contains frequently asked questions and support information.
The issue tracker is located at https://github.com/chfoo/wpull/issues.
Dev
Contributions and feedback are greatly appreciated.
Credits
Copyright 2013-2016 by Christopher Foo and others. License GPL v3.
This project contains third-party source code licensed under different terms:
wpull.backport.logging
wpull.thirdparty.robotexclusionrulesparser
wpull.thirdparty.dammit
We would like to acknowledge the authors of GNU Wget as Wpull uses algorithms from Wget.
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