I'm trying to have wget retrieve the pics from a list of saved URLs. I have a list of facebook profiles from which I need the main profile picture saved.

Here is what I was working on, I did not get very far with it:

The user agent is needed because without this each page will have an error on it stating that my browser is incompatible.

This is one of many attempts I have tried at this, all basic permutations of the included code.

So far, what is happening is that the pages I retrieve are full HTML, rather than what I want, which is simply the pictures.

The URLs I have are all of the form . When I pull such up in my browser with the included wget command I see everything just fine; however, when I do it reading in a file (or even manually specifying a page to download), what I receive is the html file with everything intact minus the main photo of the page (that pages' user picture).


I believe I need the -A switch, but I think that is what is causing the issues (because the page is not a .jpg, it's getting deleted).

If someone has done the same thing as I am after, or has any helpful tips, I would greatly appreciate a nudge in the right direction.

Thanks.

I think that I recall not using a space between -A and .jpg did the job.

Something like
which will recursively get all .jpg files from blah blah.

If you want to call the links from a .txt file that you have made then
You can also specify depth -l, no clobber -nc etc.