Question

Webpage contains a link to a pdf (note the different domains).

I can use wget to directly download the pdf, but cannot seem to identify the correct wget command line options to “mirror” the webpage including this linked pdf. I tried to use combinations of options like

• -p
• –span-hosts
• -D
• –accept

with no success.

Can wget (or some other command line tool) be used to download linked pdf-s?

Thank

Answer 1

While the pdf link is shown in browsers, the page source does not contain the download link. So wget does not get to see/follow the link, as it doesn’t really “process” the page.