There is a long and short of version of most (e.g. Wget commands typically take arguments and a URL. Open a terminal and navigate to a test directory. See: Intro to the Command Line Basic Wget However, we have discovered some bugs when creating WARC files with Wget on Cmder.).
#Wget alternative portable
On Windows, I suggest setting up a Bash terminal with Wget, for example Cygwin as outlined in Using Cygwin ( note: I previously suggested Cmder as a handy portable option.
#Wget alternative free
Wget is a handy Free command line tool to robustly retrieve documents from the web. The file “will not be in the web archive, but the document is captured as “( example) Wget Prep This causes problems for a web archive, since we harvest the resulting static HTML, not the aspx script. Rather than a static HTML document, the links are a dynamic request to “active server page extended” script, which creates the page (which is not academics.html or academics/index.html). Look at, notice that the hyperlinks on page look like. This is a database driven dynamic site written using ASP.NET (?, check their SiteCore demo site). (example use case, Transparent Idaho) Dynamic requests issues Webrecorder is a tool used to capture features that require user interaction, but this requires actually surfing everything you want to harvest.
#Wget alternative archive
In a web archive features such as search bar, streaming media, widget embeds, and complex JS won’t work (or will introduce context anomalies).
This is a static snap shot at a specific point in time, meaning the dynamic functionality of a website will NOT be captured.ĭepending on the site design this could lead to loss of information.įor example, some information is not fetched until a button click, links are written to the page using JS, images are changed for different browsers, or data is retrieved via a web form (POST request). Web crawls harvest the set of pages generated by following the links within a domain. This enables more complex interactivity such as comments, customized views, user management, and a web-based admin interface.
Thus a URL represents a query, rather than an existing document on the server.Ĭontent, templates, and metadata are usually stored in a database.įor example, WordPress uses the scripting language PHP and database MySQL. Dynamic vs Static webĪ static website is a collection of HTML, CSS, JS, images, and other files that are delivered exactly as they are on the server to users.Ī URL in a static site generally represents a request for an HTML document in a specific file location.ĭynamic web uses a server-side scripting language to create pages on the fly when a user makes a request. Protocol + domain name (optional port :80) + path + query with parameters + fragment/anchorĪ subdomain can be added in front of the main domain name(s).įor example, in > lib is a subdomain of uidaho, which is a subdomain of the top-level domain edu. Mini intro to practical Wget for archivists What’s in a URL?
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