2.11 Recursive Accept/Reject Options

-A acclist --accept acclist

-R rejlist --reject rejlist

Specify comma-separated lists of file name suffixes or patterns to accept or reject (see Types of Files for more details).

-D domain-list

--domains=domain-list

Set domains to be followed. domain-list is a comma-separated list of domains. Note that it does not turn on -H.

--exclude-domains domain-list

Specify the domains that are not to be followed. (see Spanning Hosts).

--follow-ftp

Follow ftp links from html documents. Without this option, Wget will ignore all the ftp links.

--follow-tags=list

Wget has an internal table of html tag / attribute pairs that it considers when looking for linked documents during a recursive retrieval. If a user wants only a subset of those tags to be considered, however, he or she should be specify such tags in a comma-separated list with this option.

--ignore-tags=list

This is the opposite of the --follow-tags option. To skip certain html tags when recursively looking for documents to download, specify them in a comma-separated list.

In the past, this option was the best bet for downloading a single page and its requisites, using a command-line like:

          wget --ignore-tags=a,area -H -k -K -r http://site/document
     

However, the author of this option came across a page with tags like <LINK REL="home" HREF="/"> and came to the realization that specifying tags to ignore was not enough. One can't just tell Wget to ignore <LINK>, because then stylesheets will not be downloaded. Now the best bet for downloading a single page and its requisites is the dedicated --page-requisites option.

-H

--span-hosts

Enable spanning across hosts when doing recursive retrieving (see Spanning Hosts).

-L

--relative

Follow relative links only. Useful for retrieving a specific home page without any distractions, not even those from the same hosts (see Relative Links).

-I list

--include-directories=list

Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to follow when downloading (see Directory-Based Limits for more details.) Elements of list may contain wildcards.

-X list

--exclude-directories=list

Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to exclude from download (see Directory-Based Limits for more details.) Elements of list may contain wildcards.

-np

--no-parent

Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving recursively. This is a useful option, since it guarantees that only the files below a certain hierarchy will be downloaded. See Directory-Based Limits, for more details.