Wpull

Wpull is a Wget-compatible (or remake/clone/replacement/alternative) web downloader and crawler.

Notable Features:

• Written in Python: lightweight, modifiable, robust, & scriptable
• Graceful stopping; on-disk database resume
• PhantomJS & youtube-dl integration (experimental)

Install

Wpull uses Python 3.

Once Python is installed, download Wpull from PyPI using pip:

pip3 install wpull

For detailed installation instructions and potential caveats, please see https://wpull.readthedocs.io/en/master/install.html.

Example Commands

To download the About page of Google.com:

wpull google.com/about

To archive a website:

wpull billy.blogsite.example \
    --warc-file blogsite-billy \
    --no-check-certificate \
    --no-robots --user-agent "InconspiuousWebBrowser/1.0" \
    --wait 0.5 --random-wait --waitretry 600 \
    --page-requisites --recursive --level inf \
    --span-hosts-allow linked-pages,page-requisites \
    --escaped-fragment --strip-session-id \
    --sitemaps \
    --reject-regex "/login\.php" \
    --tries 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-dns-error \
    --timeout 60 --session-timeout 21600 \
    --delete-after --database blogsite-billy.db \
    --quiet --output-file blogsite-billy.log

To see all options:

wpull --help

Documentation

Documentation is located at https://wpull.readthedocs.io/. Please have a look at it before using Wpull's advanced features.

Help

Need help? Please see our Help page which contains frequently asked questions and support information.

The issue tracker is located at https://github.com/chfoo/wpull/issues.

Dev

Contributions and feedback are greatly appreciated.

Credits

Copyright 2013-2016 by Christopher Foo and others. License GPL v3.

This project contains third-party source code licensed under different terms:

• wpull.backport.logging
• wpull.thirdparty.robotexclusionrulesparser
• wpull.thirdparty.dammit

We would like to acknowledge the authors of GNU Wget as Wpull uses algorithms from Wget.