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wget not saving links in desired format

rated 0 times [ 3] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 1614 / 3 Years ago, thu, june 17, 2021, 10:56:19

When I use a browser to save this page:
http://maine.craigslist.org/fuo/
the links are saved in such a way that they link to content.
like this:
href="http://maine.craigslist.org/fuo/4323535885.html"

when I try to use wget, the links are

$ wget --no-parent maine.craigslist.org/fuo

saved as:
href="/fuo/4305913395.html"

I have tried options:

--spider

--page-requisites 

--user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101  Firefox/27.0"

but the links all come out without the url attached.

I have the rest of the script working, to parse out my location, and make a new list of links for furniture in my area. But I cannot figure out how to get the same output as I get when I save the page via firefox.

I thought using wget would be simplest. Perhaps that isnt right. If I can achieve the same effect using some other software, so long as i can write a script to make it work, I will be happy.

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answered 3 Years ago landarre · Accepted Answer

The --convert-links option should do what you're looking for:

wget --convert-links --no-parent maine.craigslist.org/fuo

More information about this option and what it does is below (copied from man wget):

   --convert-links

       After the download is complete, convert the links in the document

       to make them suitable for local viewing.  This affects not only the

       visible hyperlinks, but any part of the document that links to

       external content, such as embedded images, links to style sheets,

       hyperlinks to non-HTML content, etc.



       Each link will be changed in one of the two ways:



       ·   The links to files that have been downloaded by Wget will be

           changed to refer to the file they point to as a relative link.



           Example: if the downloaded file /foo/doc.html links to

           /bar/img.gif, also downloaded, then the link in doc.html will

           be modified to point to ../bar/img.gif.  This kind of

           transformation works reliably for arbitrary combinations of

           directories.



       ·   The links to files that have not been downloaded by Wget will

           be changed to include host name and absolute path of the

           location they point to.



           Example: if the downloaded file /foo/doc.html links to

           /bar/img.gif (or to ../bar/img.gif), then the link in doc.html

           will be modified to point to http://hostname/bar/img.gif.



       Because of this, local browsing works reliably: if a linked file

       was downloaded, the link will refer to its local name; if it was

       not downloaded, the link will refer to its full Internet address

       rather than presenting a broken link.  The fact that the former

       links are converted to relative links ensures that you can move the

       downloaded hierarchy to another directory.