using wget to download all videos from a website

fakie_flip · 08-13-2006, 08:00 AM

How can I download all videos using wget from www.irongeek.com? I believe the videos are saved in www.irongeek.com/videos/ and they are in the formats SWF (flash) and AVI. I tried.

Code:

wget -r www.irongeek.com/videos/

and I am still waiting for wget to finish downloading. It seems to be downloading a lot, but no videos yet. There is probably a way to tell wget to download the videos only and not all of the web servers contents. Maybe this is right.

Code:

wget -r -A.avi http://www.irongeek.com/videos/

AzrielMacKay · 08-14-2006, 10:22 PM

Make sure you use the -np switch (no parent) to make sure it isnt downloading stuff in parent directories. Maybe someone else can give you more of a hint to tell it to only download the certain file types.

timrs · 08-14-2006, 11:38 PM

Maybe you can use wildcards (*), like

Code:

wget -r www.irongeek.com/videos/*.avi & wget -r www.irongeek.com/videos/*.swf
or maybe
wget -r www.irongeek.com/videos/*.avi www.irongeek.com/videos/*.swf

fakie_flip · 08-16-2006, 05:02 AM

The only way I have found so far that works to download all the videos with wget is to download everything on the web server. I will just download everything and then delete everything but the videos untill I find something that works better. Thanks for the suggestions.