How to: make a local copy of a website using the command line in Ubuntu written by: Lee Richmond posted on: 22 December 2009
I was recently asked to make a copy of a live website for reference purposes by a client of ours atCoolpink, I normally used HTTrack for this task as it's a really nice free piece of software and as well as having a GUI version (for both Windows and Linux) is usable via the command line in Linux.
However the last couple of times I had used it I noticed it was having problems when downloading images and cutting for no apparent reason, so I decided to look into other ways to do the task and it appears that it is relatively simple in the Linux command line using the wget command, simply type:
cd Desktop wget --mirror -p --html-extension --convert-links http://somewebsite.com
And in a matter of seconds of watching the command line spit out lots of text, a new folder titled www.somewebsite.com (obviously this will be what ever website you are making a copy of) appear on your Desktop with all the webpages downloaded as html files.
