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How to Download All Files From a

Website Directory Using Wget Windows


Published by Nyau Wai Hoe - Updated on April 14, 2021

If you want to download all les or only certain type of les (such as only images) from a website
directory or a web folder, you can use a tool called Wget in Windows to download the les
automatically. In this guide, you will learn how to use Wget (a command to be executed in command
prompt) to download les from a website directory in Windows 10.

Download All Files From a Website Directory


An example of such situation is when you need to download all les or only certain type of les such
as images, PDF, etc, from an “Index of” web directory or a website folder. Instead of having to right-
click each of them and clicking “save as”, you can download each and every le in the directory
automatically using the “Wget” command in the command prompt on Windows 10. Here’s how to do
it.
First, you need to download the Wget tool in order to be able to use it in CMD. You can download Wget
from the link below (preferably the zip version):

https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/

Once downloaded, unzip it onto any directory you like. To make things easier later, unzip it to C:\wget.
Next, open an elevated Command Prompt (run as administrator).

To be able to run the Wget command, you need to rst change the current working directory to the
Wget folder. If you unzip the Wget to C:\wget earlier, in command prompt, type the following to
change directory to C:\wget.

cd c:\wget
While you are in the directory, enter the following command to execute the automatic downloads of all
les from the entered website directory.

wget -r -np -nH  https://www.example.com/dir1/dir2/dir3

Note: Replace the example website address with the actual website directory where you want to
download the les from. This command will download all les from the entered website directory. The
parameters are case sensitive. Below are the explanations of what each of the parameters does.

-r is to allow recursive download. If this is absent, the command will only download the rst le
on the directory.
-np is short for no parent. It tells the command not to ascend to the parent directory. Without
this parameter, the command will ascent to and download les from the parent directories such
as example.com, example.com/dir1 and example.com/dir1/dir2.
-nH is short for no hostname. It tells the command not to create host directories.

The les will be downloaded onto the same directory as where the Wget.exe is. In the example above,
new directories will be automatically created within the C:\wget folder and the les will be downloaded
onto these directories.

Other parameters you might need


-A parameter will tells the command to download only certain type of le. For example, “-A pdf” will
tell the command to only download PDF les from the website directory. If you want to download only
certain type of images, for example, jpg les from a website directory, use “-A jpg”. Below is an
example of including -A parameter in the Wget command.

wget -r -np -nH -A jpg https://www.example.com/dir1/dir2/dir3

-R parameter ignores certain le or type of le that you don’t want to download. For example, “-R
index.html” will tell the Wget command to skip the index.html le and not download it. “-R CSS” will
ignore all CSS les from the directory. Below is an example of using wget with -R parameter.
wget -r -np -nH -R index.html https://www.example.com/dir1/dir2/dir3

–cut-dirs parameter will tell the command how many directory you want to omit. For example, if you
download les from https://www.example.com/dir1/dir2/dir3 without cut-dirs (and with -nH), the
folder created on your PC will have the directory structure of dir1\dir2\dir3. If you want to ignore the
dir1\dir2 folders, you can use the –cut-dirs command to omit the directories. Here’s an example of
using wget with –cut-dirs parameter. Note that the –cut-dirs parameter has two dashes (-) in it.

wget -r -np -nH -A pdf --cut-dirs=1 https://www.example.com/dir1/dir2/dir3

Parameters are case sensitive. If you are using, for example, -A to lter download only certain type of
les, if you enter -a instead, it won’t work.

To view all other available parameters you can use with Wget, in the command prompt, type the
following command.

wget -help

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