lwp-rget

LWP-RGET(1)	     User Contributed Perl Documentation	  LWP-RGET(1)



NAME
       lwp-rget - Retrieve web documents recursively

SYNOPSIS
	lwp-rget [--verbose] [--auth=USER:PASS] [--depth=N] [--hier] [--iis]
		 [--keepext=mime/type[,mime/type]] [--limit=N] [--nospace]
		 [--prefix=URL] [--referer=URL] [--sleep=N] [--tolower] <URL>
	lwp-rget --version

DESCRIPTION
       This program will retrieve a document and store it in a local file.
       It will follow any links found in the document and store these docu-
       ments as well, patching links so that they refer to these local
       copies.	This process continues until there are no more unvisited
       links or the process is stopped by the one or more of the limits which
       can be controlled by the command line arguments.

       This program is useful if you want to make a local copy of a collec-
       tion of documents or want to do web reading off-line.

       All documents are stored as plain files in the current directory. The
       file names chosen are derived from the last component of URL paths.

       The options are:

       --auth=USER:PASn
	  Set the authentication credentials to user "USER" and password
	  "PASS" if any restricted parts of the web site are hit.  If there
	  are restricted parts of the web site and authentication credentials
	  are not available, those pages will not be downloaded.

       --depth=n
	  Limit the recursive level. Embedded images are always loaded, even
	  if they fall outside the --depth. This means that one can use
	  --depth=0 in order to fetch a single document together with all
	  inline graphics.

	  The default depth is 5.

       --hier
	  Download files into a hierarchy that mimics the web site structure.
	  The default is to put all files in the current directory.

       --referer=URI
	  Set the value of the Referer header for the initial request.	The
	  special value "NONE" can be used to suppress the Referer header in
	  any of subsequent requests.  The Referer header will always be sup-
	  pressed in all normal "http" requests if the referring page was
	  transmitted over "https" as recommended in RFC 2616.

       --iis
	  Sends an "Accept: */*" on all URL requests as a workaround for a
	  bug in IIS 2.0.  If no Accept MIME header is present, IIS 2.0
	  returns with a "406 No acceptable objects were found" error.	Also
	  converts any back slashes (\\) in URLs to forward slashes (/).

       --keepext=mime/type[,mime/type]
	  Keeps the current extension for the list MIME types.	Useful when
	  downloading text/plain documents that shouldn’t all be translated
	  to *.txt files.

       --limit=n
	  Limit the number of documents to get.	 The default limit is 50.

       --nospace
	  Changes spaces in all URLs to underscore characters (_).  Useful
	  when downloading files from sites serving URLs with spaces in
	  them.	  Does not remove spaces from fragments, e.g.,
	  "file.html#somewhere in here".

       --prefix=url_prefix
	  Limit the links to follow. Only URLs that start the prefix string
	  are followed.

	  The default prefix is set as the "directory" of the initial URL to
	  follow.    For instance if we start lwp-rget with the URL
	  "http://www.sn.no/foo/bar.html", then prefix will be set to
	  "http://www.sn.no/foo/".

	  Use "--prefix=’’" if you don’t want the fetching to be limited by
	  any prefix.

       --sleep=n
	  Sleep n seconds before retrieving each document. This options
	  allows you to go slowly, not loading the server you visiting too
	  much.

       --tolower
	  Translates all links to lowercase.  Useful when downloading files
	  from IIS since it does not serve files in a case sensitive manner.

       --verbose
	  Make more noise while running.

       --quiet
	  Don’t make any noise.

       --version
	  Print program version number and quit.

       --help
	  Print the usage message and quit.

       Before the program exits the name of the file, where the initial URL
       is stored, is printed on stdout.	 All used filenames are also printed
       on stderr as they are loaded.  This printing can be suppressed with
       the --quiet option.

SEE ALSO
       lwp-request, LWP

AUTHOR
       Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>



perl v5.8.8			  2008-04-07			  LWP-RGET(1)