Re: [Bug-wget] wget -r not working with www.archive.org

[Micah Cowan]

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Aaron Gray wrote:
> wget does not seem to want to get from the WayBackMachine -
> http://www.archive.org stored web sites.

archive.org pages contain funny JavaScript code that allows it to work
properly in browsers, and not in Wget. IIRC, it's that they set the HTML
"base" tag so that links are retrieved from the original site (whether
it exists or not), rather than archive.org; but the JavaScript will then
rewrite the base tag so that browser clicks retrieve them from archive.org.

Please note that archive.org's FAQ explicitly forbids downloading local
archives via tools such as wget.

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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