Download recursively with wget

wget by default honours the robots.txt standard for crawling pages, just like search engines do, and for archive.org, it disallows the entire /web/ subdirectory. To override, use -e robots=off,

wget -nd -r -l 10 -e robots=off http://web.archive.org/web/20110726051510/http://feedparser.org/docs/

$ wget --random-wait -r -p -e robots=off -U Mozilla \
    http://web.archive.org/web/20110726051510/http://feedparser.org/docs/

Downloads recursively the content of the url.

--random-wait - wait between 0.5 to 1.5 seconds between requests.
-r - turn on recursive retrieving.
-e robots=off - ignore robots.txt.
-U Mozilla - set the "User-Agent" header to "Mozilla". Though a better choice is a real User-Agent like "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)".

Some other useful options are:

--limit-rate=20k - limits download speed to 20kbps.
-o logfile.txt - log the downloads.
-l 0 - remove recursion depth (which is 5 by default).
--wait=1h - be sneaky, download one file every hour.

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