How to download an entire website for offline usage (using wget)

Here is a simple step to downloading an entire website and making it available offline using wget.

💡Wget is a command-line utility for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols.

How to Install Wget

Wget comes with most Unix/Linux systems, but here is how you get it in case you were left out.

Use the command →

On Mac:

brew install wget

On Linux:

sudo apt-get install wget

Using Wget to download the website:

Enter this command on your terminal

wget -m -p -E -k -np https://example.com

The options explained:

-m, --mirror            Turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite
                          recursion depth, and keeps FTP directory listings.
-p, --page-requisites   Get all images, etc. needed to display HTML page.
-E, --adjust-extension  Save HTML/CSS files with .html/.css extensions.
-k, --convert-links     Make links in downloaded HTML point to local files.
-np, --no-parent        Dont ascend to the parent directory when retrieving
                        recursively. This guarantees that only the files below
                        a certain hierarchy will be downloaded. Requires a slash
                        at the end of the directory, e.g. example.com/foo/.