wpull 0.31

Wget-compatible web downloader and crawler.

Wpull is a Wget-compatible (or remake/clone/replacement/alternative) web downloader and crawler.

Features:

• Written in Python: lightweight & robust

• Familiar Wget options and behavior

• Graceful stopping and resuming

• Python & Lua scripting support

• Modular, extensible, & asynchronous API

• PhantomJS integration

Currently in beta quality! Some features are not implemented yet and the API is not considered stable.

Install

Requires:

• Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3 (or newer)

• Tornado

• Toro

• lxml

• chardet

• BeautifulSoup4

• SQLAlchemy

• Lunatic Python (bastibe version) (optional for Lua support)

• PhantomJS (optional)

Once you install the requirements, install Wpull from PyPI using pip:

pip3 install wpull

For detailed installation instructions, please see http://wpull.readthedocs.org/en/master/install.html.

Run

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 --domains blogsitecdn.example,cloudspeeder.example \
--hostnames billy.blogsite.example \
--reject-regex "/login\.php"  \
--tries inf --retry-connrefused --retry-dns-error \
--delete-after --database blogsite-billy.db \
--quiet --output-file blogsite-billy.log

To see all options:

wpull --help

Documentation

Documentation is located at http://wpull.readthedocs.org/.

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 2013-2014 by Christopher Foo. License GPL v3.

This project contains third-party source code licensed under different terms:

• backport

• wpull.backport.argparse

• wpull.backport.collections

• wpull.backport.functools

• wpull.backport.tempfile

• wpull.backport.urlparse

• wpull.thirdparty.robotexclusionrulesparser

We would like to acknowledge the authors of GNU Wget as Wpull uses algorithms from Wget.