wget help
 

i need some help with wget

i need to get all .jpg files and all .html files from a directory

how would i do this?

thanks

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I looked at the man pages for wget, and unfortunately, file-globbing is only supported for ftp transfers, and not http. I'm sure you knew that already though.

You may be forced to mirror the site, and then delete the non-html and non-jpeg files after the fact by using a script. I dunno... maybe it's possible to use wget to collect a list of the files on the server, then use grep to weed out those you don't want, and then wget the remaining through repeated wget calls (all through a script of course). It would be easy to do with the exception of getting the file list. Maybe wget has a way to do that... I might look at it again in a few minutes.

I think your only option would be to use the -A (--accept) option. I haven't tried it myself, but something like this might work:

wget http://some.website.com/wherever -r --level=1 --accept html,jpg

You might have to modify the --level option, but like I said, I haven't tried it. From what the man pages say, it looks like it should.