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| DATE | 2008-10-02 |
| FROM | email
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] wget & mirrors
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Thanks gang, I'm testing wget and httrack
best-
R
Happy New Year Rube
Paul Robert Marino wrote:
> ther is a program called w3m that does web site mirroring although I've never had a nead to use it so I couldn't tel you how well it works.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: Matthew
> Subj: Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] wget & mirrors
> Date: Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:15 pm
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> To: hangout-at-mrbrklyn.com
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> The biggest question is. Who ownes the website. If you do,
> then copy the database behind it.
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> If it is not your site, then use of wget with a bit of perl might do the job,
> to do a decent job it is really site by site.
> For this type of work you should use a swiss army chain saw AKA perl or similar.
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> Matthew
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 11:55:01PM -0400, email wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I'm curious if anyone has experience using wget to mirror a website? I
>> have some but limited.
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>> More specifically, I am looking to really archive a site. For example,
>> if I'm mirroring a blog, I would want it to update (add) new pages,
>> update pages where the post is updated, plus, and heres the caveat, not
>> delete pages that are deleted, and not delete text that is deleted from
>> posts.
>>
>> So it would be more of an archival system than a mirror. Not sure if
>> wget is the tool for this but I'd love to hear any input/opinions from
>> anyone out there.
>>
>> Thx
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