[Techtalk] Scraping a webpage from a website.

[EevaJärvinen]

On pe, 2003-05-02 at 18:49, Jennifer Davis wrote:
> Hi.  I was wondering if there was a simple way to script and download a
> website so it can be placed somewhere else.  Essentially I need to
> retreive a site for a non-profit provided that is disbanding.  I would
> assume a shell or perl script could do it, but my scripting skills are not
> quite there yet.  Thanks...
> 

If I understand you correctly, you simply want to copy a website
completely to another location.  I'd use either GNU wget (GPL) or curl
(MPL, MIT/X), both of which are available as free software.  If,
however, you'd like to copy a site's scripting facilities as well, I
think that is not possible, unless you get access to the site's
directory tree, in which case a simple rsync will do, *provided* you
have all the necessary utilities in your system to run the site.  (i.e.
if the site has php-scripts, you have to have php and so on)


love,
Eeva

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