Topic: Local Website content to PDF?

[Steve]

It pulled everything image wise, maybe because i used -r?

Any event I'm 97 pages in to the ctrl-p method and probably bout 50 left so screw it.

[webwhy]

If you used wget to pull the pages, you have the rendered HTML that is generated by the ASP, not the ASP code itself. It doesn't matter that the extension is .asp, it's still just HTML code. One of the html2pdf projects I linked to above should be able to render pdfs from the HTML, but the quality will vary... also, wget only pulls the page you request, not embedded images and things like that. It also doesn't execute javascript if the page depends on it during loading.

wget can also speak ftp.  i assumed he mirrored the entire site with -m and ftp and had the entire site locally.

[Steve]

I just used $ wget url -r

it copied all of the pages, images, everything. I dumped that folder onto my local server and it ran exactly as it does live.

[Perspective]

Ok, so -r or -m will pull referenced URLs. The point I was trying to make is that you now have the HTML and don't need to execute the ASP. That is done server side when you make the wget request.

[webwhy]

Ok, so -r or -m will pull referenced URLs. The point I was trying to make is that you now have the HTML and don't need to execute the ASP. That is done server side when you make the wget request.

understood...the point i was trying to make is that you can end up with asp and not html using wget.  it depends on how you're using the tool

[Mike]

I don't think most people would use wget for ftp access.  I think it is reasonable to assume one is using wget to make http(s) requests unless stated otherwise.

[Govtcheez]

ie: http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ is snapshot of whitehouse.gov on the last day of the GWB presidency.

i don't understand, why isn't this just a homeless person crying

[Steve]

I don't think most people would use wget for ftp access.  I think it is reasonable to assume one is using wget to make http(s) requests unless stated otherwise.

Really depends. If you want to download a bunch of files or all of them from an ftp server via terminal using wget with the ftp info is easy

[Mike]

I don't think most people would use wget for ftp access.  I think it is reasonable to assume one is using wget to make http(s) requests unless stated otherwise.

Really depends. If you want to download a bunch of files or all of them from an ftp server via terminal using wget with the ftp info is easy

Or one of 50000 other ftp programs.

[Steve]

Right, but if you are goi.g to do it from terminal its literally one line

$ wget --username --pass ftp://somesite:25/* -r

[Mike]

scp -r username@server:/path  Is even better (cause it is secure)

[Steve]

Hmm never used that one. Thanks

[Mike]

Well, it doesn't work if all you have is ftp.  It does require ssh access.

[Steve]

I have it, just never used it. In the case of this thread it was not my server, so wget was the go to choice.