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# 1  
Old 03-24-2014
Wget help
How can I download only *.zip and *.rar files from a website <index> who has multiple directories in root parent directory?

I need wget to crawl every directory and download only zip and rar files. Is there anyway I could do it?
# 2  
Old 03-24-2014
Depending on your OS, did you try something like:

Code:
 wget -m --accept=zip,rar http://example.com/

From the wget man page:

Code:
 Recursive Accept/Reject Options
       -A acclist --accept acclist
       -R rejlist --reject rejlist
	   Specify comma-separated lists of file name suffixes or patterns to accept or reject.
	   Note that if any of the wildcard characters, *, ?, [ or ], appear in an element of
	   acclist or rejlist, it will be treated as a pattern, rather than a suffix.

# 3  
Old 03-24-2014
Tried your way but seems like its not working as I want to. It creates the directory paths. All I want to is to download only the .zip and .rar files without the directory paths.

I'm running CentOS 6.4

---------- Post updated at 01:48 PM ---------- Previous update was at 01:16 PM ----------

wget -r -U Mozilla -t 1 -nd -A zip "http://www.xxx.xxx" -e robots=off

isnt working (googled it)

Output:

Code:
--2014-03-24 18:47:40--  http://ccc/i/?C=N;O=D
Connecting to www.xxxx.xxxx|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: âindex.html?C=N;O=Dâ

    [      <=>                                                                                                           ] 135,018      130K/s   in 1.0s

2014-03-24 18:47:42 (130 KB/s) - âindex.html?C=N;O=Dâ

                                                     Removing index.html?C=N;O=D since it should be rejected.

# 4  
Old 03-24-2014
How about crawling the whole server, retrieving all findings as a list only.
In the next step, parse the list for your files (zip,rar) and then download those findings to current dir.

eg something like:
Code:
wget -r --spider example.com > retrieved.txt
for FOUND in $(grep -e rar -e zip retrieved.txt);do
  wget -nc $FOUND > $(basename $FOUND)
done

# 5  
Old 03-24-2014
Isnt working like that either. Try it yourself. Page is:

301 Moved Permanently
# 6  
Old 03-24-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by galford
Tried your way but seems like its not working as I want to. It creates the directory paths. All I want to is to download only the .zip and .rar files without the directory paths.
I don't see an issue here.... just download them with the directory path and them use a simple script (find /your/wget/root -exec mv * /mydir {} \; )to move all the files to a single directory if that is what you want to do.

It's not an issue if wget creates multiple directories and paths because you can move those files very easily after downloading with wget.
# 7  
Old 03-24-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by sea
How about crawling the whole server, retrieving all findings as a list only.
In the next step, parse the list for your files (zip,rar) and then download those findings to current dir.

eg something like:
Code:
wget -r --spider example.com > retrieved.txt
for FOUND in $(grep -e rar -e zip retrieved.txt);do
  wget -nc $FOUND > $(basename $FOUND)
done


Tried your way for jpg files and i'm getting this:

Code:
Spider mode enabled. Check if remote file exists.
--2014-03-24 19:31:01--  http://www.cutetracking.com/images/Dating/spice/3.jpg
Reusing existing connection to www.cutetracking.com:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 44925 (44K) [image/jpeg]
Remote file exists but does not contain any link -- not retrieving.

 
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