Download all media files from webpage

Question

How to download all media files(pictures + Videos) from a webpage?!

Any app is acceptable but wget is preferable

Solution 1

Everything is in the man page.

Anyway, -p is the switch you are looking for

wget -p www.example.com/index.html

However, I guess it will not be able to do some clever things (involving javascript). It depends on your page.

Solution 2

wget has a mirror option (-m) that can go through a site and make a local copy. It's like the prerequisites (-p) option except that it'll follow every link on the domain and download all the pages on the site (that are linked in). If you only need files on one page, -p is enough.

If you're planning on mirroring the pages you can use the -k option to fix links. This is completely optional and isn't necessary if you're only after assets.

One problem I've had while doing this is some sites use a robots.txt file to stop Google (et al) copying or caching their assets. wget normally adheres to this too but we can turn it off. It's worth doing this as a matter of course.

Put it all together and you end up with something like this:

wget -mke robots=off http://website

Solution 3

Video Download helper is your easiest option:

• Video DownloadHelper :: Add-ons for Firefox

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wget is a bit trickier. You can wget a page:

• wget www.example.com/page.html

then parse it:

• cat page.html | grep ".png"

  and then download those images via the link, the previous command displays:

• wget www.example.com/images/image.png