My brother-in-law setup a website for his wedding a few months ago and today it was attacked by a brute-force login attempt. Since this site was no longer in use we decided to delete the site. I wanted to be sure that they were able to look back at what they had made though so I downloaded the website with wget and sent them the archive. Here is my process.

Command

wget \
  --recursive \
  --no-clobber \
  --page-requisites \
  --convert-links \
  --no-parent \
  http://yoursitehere/

Arguments

• --recursive is used to download all pages in the website
• --no-clobber is used to not download duplicate files
• --page-requisites downloads all supporting files for the webpage such as images
• --convert-links will convert any links inside the files to the locally saved files for offline
• --no-parent won’t allow for pages above your starting page to be downloaded

Result

We are left with a folder for the website. For my use-case I zip the folder to send to my brother-in-law.

zip yoursitehere.zip yoursitehere