On 11/20/23 13:29, American Citizen wrote: > Hello: > > I am trying to grab one specific file from a quake monitoring website > using wget. The file name is "index.js" > > The wget command is > > % wget -r -l3 --no-parent -A "index.js" https://vafri.is/quake/ > > However the results do NOT come back with the file at all, but > apparently the wget command is deflected and unable to retrieve the > file. I can do a manual save of the website as an html file with an html > directory which contains the "index.js" file. > > What am I doing wrong? > > Thank you for the clarification/correction and advice. > >
Why try to spider the site and run afoul of there rebots.txt? If the file is publicly accessible just use wget https://vafri.is/<full path to file>/index.js see 'man wget' for options to compensate for URL redirects etc. -Ed
