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SuckIT

SuckIT allows you to recursively visit and download a website's content to your disk.

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Features

Options

USAGE:
    suckit [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <url>

FLAGS:
    -c, --continue-on-error                  Flag to enable or disable exit on error
        --disable-certs-checks               Dissable SSL certificates verification
        --dry-run                            Do everything without saving the files to the disk
    -h, --help                               Prints help information
    -V, --version                            Prints version information
    -v, --verbose                            Enable more information regarding the scraping process
        --visit-filter-is-download-filter    Use the dowload filter in/exclude regexes for visiting as well

OPTIONS:
    -a, --auth <auth>...
            HTTP basic authentication credentials space-separated as "username password host". Can be repeated for
            multiple credentials as "u1 p1 h1 u2 p2 h2"
        --cookie <cookie>
            Cookie to send with each request, format: key1=value1;key2=value2 [default: ]

        --delay <delay>
            Add a delay in seconds between downloads to reduce the likelihood of getting banned [default: 0]

    -d, --depth <depth>
            Maximum recursion depth to reach when visiting. Default is -1 (infinity) [default: -1]

    -e, --exclude-download <exclude-download>
            Regex filter to exclude saving pages that match this expression [default: $^]

        --exclude-visit <exclude-visit>
            Regex filter to exclude visiting pages that match this expression [default: $^]

        --ext-depth <ext-depth>
            Maximum recursion depth to reach when visiting external domains. Default is 0. -1 means infinity [default:
            0]
    -i, --include-download <include-download>
            Regex filter to limit to only saving pages that match this expression [default: .*]

        --include-visit <include-visit>
            Regex filter to limit to only visiting pages that match this expression [default: .*]

    -j, --jobs <jobs>                            Maximum number of threads to use concurrently [default: 1]
    -o, --output <output>                        Output directory
        --random-range <random-range>
            Generate an extra random delay between downloads, from 0 to this number. This is added to the base delay
            seconds [default: 0]
    -t, --tries <tries>                          Maximum amount of retries on download failure [default: 20]
    -u, --user-agent <user-agent>                User agent to be used for sending requests [default: suckit]

ARGS:
    <url>    Entry point of the scraping

Example

A common use case could be the following:

suckit http://books.toscrape.com -j 8 -o /path/to/downloaded/pages/

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Installation

As of right now, SuckIT does not work on Windows.

To install it, you need to have Rust installed.

Arch Linux

suckit can be installed from available AUR packages using an AUR helper. For example,

yay -S suckit

Want to contribute ? Feel free to open an issue or submit a PR !

License

SuckIT is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0)

See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.