NAME
    lwp-rget - Retrieve WWW documents recursively

SYNOPSIS
 lwp-rget [--verbose] [--auth=USER:PASS] [--depth=N] [--hier] [--iis]
   [--keepext=mime/type[,mime/type]] [--limit=N] [--nospace]
   [--prefix=URL] [--referer=URL] [--sleep=N] [--tolower] <URL>
 lwp-rget --version

DESCRIPTION
    This program will retrieve a document and store it in a local file. It
    will follow any links found in the document and store these documents
    as well, patching links so that they refer to these local copies. This
    process continues until there are no more unvisited links or the pro-
    cess is stopped by the one or more of the limits which can be con-
    trolled by the command line arguments.

    This program is useful if you want to make a local copy of a collection
    of documents or want to do web reading off-line.

    All documents are stored as plain files in the current directory. The
    file names chosen are derived from the last component of URL paths.

    The options are:

    --auth=USER:PASn
  Set the authentication credentials to user "USER" and password
  "PASS" if any restricted parts of the web site are hit. If there
  are restricted parts of the web site and authentication credentials
  are not available, those pages will not be downloaded.

    --depth=n
  Limit the recursive level. Embedded images are always loaded, even
  if they fall outside the --depth. This means that one can use
  --depth=0 in order to fetch a single document together with all
  inline graphics.

  The default depth is 5.

    --hier
  Download files into a hierarchy that mimics the web site structure.
  The default is to put all files in the current directory.

    --referer=URI
  Set the value of the referer header for the initial request. The
  special value "NONE" can be used to suppress the referer header in
  any of subsequent requests.

    --iis
  Sends an "Accept: */*" on all URL requests as a workaround for a bug
  in IIS 2.0. If no Accept MIME header is present, IIS 2.0 returns
  with a "406 No acceptable objects were found" error. Also converts
  any back slashes (\\) in URLs to forward slashes (/).

    --keepext=mime/type[,mime/type]
  Keeps the current extension for the list MIME types. Useful when
  downloading text/plain documents that shouldn't all be translated to
  *.txt files.

    --limit=n
  Limit the number of documents to get.  The default limit is 50.

    --nospace
  Changes spaces in all URLs to underscore characters (_). Useful
  when downloading files from sites serving URLs with spaces in
  them.  Does not remove spaces from fragments, e.g.,
  "file.html#somewhere in here".

    --prefix=url_prefix
  Limit the links to follow. Only URLs that start the prefix string
  are followed.

  The default prefix is set as the "directory" of the initial URL to
  follow.  For instance if we start lwp-rget with the URL
  "http://www.sn.no/foo/bar.html", then prefix will be set to
  "http://www.sn.no/foo/".

  Use "--prefix=''" if you don't want the fetching to be limited by
  any prefix.

    --sleep=n
  Sleep n seconds before retrieving each document. This options allows
  you to go slowly, not loading the server you visiting too much.

    --tolower
  Translates all links to lowercase. Useful when downloading files
  from IIS since it does not serve files in a case sensitive manner.

    --verbose
  Make more noise while running.

    --quiet
  Don't make any noise.

    --version
  Print program version number and quit.

    --help
  Print the usage message and quit.

    Before the program exits the name of the file, where the initial URL is
    stored, is printed on stdout. All used filenames are also printed on
    stderr as they are loaded. This printing can be suppressed with the
    --quiet option.

SEE ALSO
    lwp-request, LWP

AUTHOR
    Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>