How to use wget to download an online HTML book

[amoroso]

I am trying to download an HTML book at NASA's History Division web site and convert it to ePub. I use the following wget command under Linux:

wget -H --level=2 -k -p --wait=0.5 http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205/cover.html

but it downloads only 3-4 pages instead of the whole book as I would expect. What options am I missing? My wget usage is a bit rusty these days.

[Falcao]

Originally Posted by amoroso

I am trying to download an HTML book at NASA's History Division web site and convert it to ePub. I use the following wget command under Linux:

wget -H --level=2 -k -p --wait=0.5 http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205/cover.html

but it downloads only 3-4 pages instead of the whole book as I would expect. What options am I missing? My wget usage is a bit rusty these days.

I use WinHTTrack for these tasks.

[amoroso]

Originally Posted by Falcao

I use WinHTTrack for these tasks.

I use Linux.

[amoroso]

Originally Posted by amoroso

I am trying to download an HTML book at NASA's History Division web site and convert it to ePub. I use the following wget command under Linux:

wget -H --level=2 -k -p --wait=0.5 http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205/cover.html

but it downloads only 3-4 pages instead of the whole book as I would expect. What options am I missing? My wget usage is a bit rusty these days.

I'm resurrecting this old thread in the hope that someone may be able to help.

[Who are you?]

You'll at least want to add -r

[amoroso]

Originally Posted by Who are you?

You'll at least want to add -r

I've tried adding -r, but wget downloads just 3 files.

[GeoffC]

You have a Kindle I notice ....

Amazon have a version for $1.13 - might save you all the trouble if it's an identical copy ....
http://www.amazon.com/Chariots-for-A...=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ

[amoroso]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

You have a Kindle I notice ....

Amazon have a version for $1.13 - might save you all the trouble if it's an identical copy ....
http://www.amazon.com/Chariots-for-A...=A7B2F8DUJ88VZ

I mentioned this book just as an example for learning to use wget, because I am also interested in other titles available at the same NASA site. These books have a similar file hierarchy, so I picked one of them as an example.

I did buy that Kindle edition of Chariots for Apollo, but asked for a refund because it is missing the many illustrations and is badly formatted. See my review.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by amoroso

I'm resurrecting this old thread in the hope that someone may be able to help.

Ciao, Paolo!

I have just uploaded a .epub version of this SP-4205 website to our Mobileread.com epub library.

It was originally downloaded using HTTrack in July 2009 (see this post) and most recently converted to .epub using calibre. I cleaned up some irregularities using Sigil as well as manually opening the .epub using winrar and dropping corrected files therein. It took about three hours of fiddling, but I was watching a movie (sort of) at the time as well.

Enjoy!

[GeoffC]

Och !

Weel Nick flies in to save the day ....

[amoroso]

Originally Posted by nrapallo

I have just uploaded a .epub version of this SP-4205 website to our Mobileread.com epub library.

That's great, thanks.

I was finally able to figure how to download all the book. I had to activate recursive mode (-r) and go one level deeper (--level=3). The correct command line is:

wget -r -H --level=3 -k -p --wait=1 http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4205/cover.html

Thanks all for the suggestions and help.

[GeoffC]

Pleasure to have driven you around a few bends, over meaningless hills and into dark wooded lanes to get you nowhere where you really wanted to be ...