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Best method to download a complete website

Ever thought of downloading a complete website??Ever found a site too interesting but didn’t feel like going through each page and saving it offline??Here is a little application that will server the purpose.Works only on linux/unix systems

Go to the console and type:

wget -R <complete name of site>

The output is saved to a folder with name of the website.Thats it! You are now ready to download something big as google!!!

Here is the manual page of wget in case you miss it ..

GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
the Web.  It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
retrieval through HTTP proxies.

Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background,
while the user is not logged on.  This allows you to start a retrieval
and disconnect from the system, letting Wget finish the work.  By con‐
trast, most of the Web browsers require constant user’s presence, which
can be a great hindrance when transferring a lot of data.

Wget can follow links in HTML and XHTML pages and create local versions
of remote web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the
original site.  This is sometimes referred to as “recursive download‐
ing.”  While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard
(/robots.txt).  Wget can be instructed to convert the links in down‐
loaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.

Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network
connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will keep
retrying until the whole file has been retrieved.  If the server sup‐
ports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the download
from where it left off.

download you tube videos directly in Firefox

well the good old days when mozilla firefox gave full support to google seem like coming to a dead end.As we all know google launched its browser google chrome to increase its web share.But mozilla has given a good reply to the rival turned friend company
Recently released plugin for
directly downloading youtube videos is the best example of the same.The mozilla users no more have to look for downloading tools for youtube and can directly do it with this plugin.It also supports downloading other such videos
Well mozilla is the clear winer this time but google surely will reply soon.