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Wget-compatible web downloader and crawler.

Project description

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

A dog pulling a box via a harness.

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:

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

Travis CI build status

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.

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