How to download an entire website to your computer with wget

A few days ago, I needed to download an entire website to my hard drive for backup and reference. I was aware of tools like Httrack, a cross-platform application (Windows, OSX, Linux) that allows us to download a full website to the hard drive, even modifying links so it is perfectly navigable offline. But Linux users have a simpler yet equally powerful alternative: wget. wget is a command that allows us to download any content from the web to our computer; it is normally used to download individual files like HTML, images, videos, etc., but with the right parameters, it can download an entire website.

wget --mirror -p --convert-links -P ./DIRECTORIO-LOCAL URL-WEB-A-DESCARGAR

With this simple code, we will download the entire website to our hard drive, and the links will be rewritten to allow local navigation. More information:

• http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/the-ultimate-wget-download-guide-with-15-awesome-examples/
• http://jamsubuntu.blogspot.com.es/2009/02/using-wget-to-download-entire-websites.html