#The best way to download a website for offline use, using wget

There are two ways - the first way is just one command run plainly in front of you; the second one runs in the background and in a different instance so you can get out of your ssh session and it will continue.

First make a folder to download the websites to and begin your downloading: (note if downloading www.steviehoward.com, you will get a folder like this: /websitedl/www.steviehoward.com/ )

##(STEP1)

````bash
mkdir /websitedl/
cd /websitedl/
````

##(STEP2)

###1st way:

````bash
wget --limit-rate=200k --no-clobber --convert-links --random-wait -r -p -E -e robots=off -U mozilla http://www.WEBSITE_YOU_WISH_TO_DOWNLOAD.com
````

###2nd way:

#####IN THE BACKGROUND DO WITH NOHUP IN FRONT AND & IN BACK

````bash
nohup wget --limit-rate=200k --no-clobber --convert-links --random-wait -r -p -E -e robots=off -U mozilla http://www.kossboss.com &
````

#####THEN TO VIEW OUTPUT ( it will put a nohup.out file where you ran the command):

````bash
tail -f nohup.out
````

####WHAT DO ALL THE SWITCHES MEAN:

````bash--limit-rate=200k```` limit download to 200 Kb /sec

````bash--no-clobber```` don't overwrite any existing files (used in case the download is interrupted and
resumed).

````bash
--convert-links
```` convert links so that they work locally, off-line, instead of pointing to a website online

````bash--random-wait```` random waits between download - websites dont like their websites downloaded

````bash-r```` recursive - downloads full website

````bash-p```` downloads everything even pictures (same as --page-requsites, downloads the images, css stuff and so on)

````bash-E```` gets the right extension of the file, without most html and other files have no extension

````bash-e robots=off```` act like we are not a robot - not like a crawler - websites dont like robots/crawlers unless they are google/or other famous search engine

````bash-U mozilla```` pretends to be just like a browser Mozilla is looking at a page instead of a crawler like wget

####PURPOSELY **DIDN'T** INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

````bash-o=/websitedl/wget1.txt```` log everything to wget_log.txt - didn't do this because it gave me no output on the screen and I don't like that.

````bash-b```` runs it in the background and I can't see progress... I like "nohup <commands> &" better

````bash--domain=steviehoward.com```` didn't include because this is hosted by Google so it might need to step into Google's domains

````bash--restrict-file-names=windows````  modify filenames so that they will work in Windows as well. Seems to work okay without this.

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[credit](http://www.kossboss.com/linux---wget-full-website)