Comment on Best web archiving software for complex sites and sites requiring logins?

• Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  wget is the most comprehensive site cloner there is. What exactly do you mean by complex? Because wget works for anything static and public… If you’re trying to clone compiled source files, like PHP or something, obviously that’s not going to work. If that’s what you mean by “complex” then just give up, because you can’t.

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  • TheTwelveYearOld@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For instance, I can’t download completely youtube pages with videos using wget, but can with pywb (though pywb has issues with sites like reddit).

    Not that I would necessarily use it for youtube pages, but that’s an example of a complex page with lots of AJAX.

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  • Paragone@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There's a "philosopher" who the far-right techbro-oligarchs rely on, whose blog is grey-something-or-other..

    I tried using wget & there's a bug or something in the site, so it keeps inserting links-to-other-sites into uri's, so you get bullshit like

    grey-something-or-other.substack.com/e/b/a/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/etc..

    The site apparently works for the people who browse it, but wget isn't succeeding in just cloning the thing.

    I want the items that the usable-site is made-of, not endless-failed-requests following recursive errors, forever..

    Apparently one has to be ultra-competent to be able to configure all the disincludes & things in the command-line-switches, to get any particular site dealt-with by wget.

    Sure, on static-sites it's magic, but on too many sites with dynamically-constructed portions of themselves, it's a damn headache, at times..

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    • Xanza@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not a bug. You literally told wget to follow links, so it did.

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      • Paragone@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There ought be a do not follow recursive links switch for it, Hoomin..

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