wget-images.markdown

How to download every image in a folder using wget

Last modified: 24-04-2013 11:12:16

It is often useful to download every image in a folder exposed e.g. as an Apache index. The following wget command has proven useful for this purpose:

$ wget -b -r -np -nd -A png http://myserver/myfolder/

A quick explanation of the command-line switches:

• The -b switch runs wget in the background.
• The -r switch turns on recursion, while the -np switch avoids following links to parent folders.
• The -nd switch makes wget dump everything into one directory, without replicating the directory hierarchy on the server.a
• The -A switch is a comma-separated list of accepted file suffixes.