Download embedded links in a html page using wget

Question

I am trying to download the package from https://github.com/justintime/nagios-plugins/downloads using wget, but what I am getting is the html file of the link I mentioned not the package. I tried this command:

wget -r -l 1 https://github.com/justintime/nagios-plugins/downloads

Is there any way to download the package from the above link?

Solution

wget is giving you what you asked for. You dint specify the package link. You are specifying the page link. Right click on the Download button of the required package on the page and select Copy Link Address and specify that address to wget

This works

wget -r -l 1 https://github.com/justintime/nagios-plugins/zipball/master

Comments

[Pavan Manjunath]

@ShankhoneerChakrovarty Actually your recursive option should also have worked as the package download link is there in the main downloads page.(I even tried with higher depths to no avail) I am not sure why wget itself dint search for those links and download, as -r is specified.