Retrieving data or source code from linked webpages

[leonmyerson]

I'm working with many webpages that are basically lists of names with each name being a link to that persons own webpage. Is there a simple way to retrieve the data or the source code of every one of these linked pages, starting from the name list page, in a single operation? Either actual data, or the source code of all of the webpages in a single text file that I can parse myself would be very useful. Thanks.

[anon]

If by "source code" you mean the HTML source, you can do this with wget.

[scdas141]

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[whatcdfan]

Not sure if I've understood you correctly but if you're looking to gather anything from a website, IDM has sitegrabber which creates the task on your specifications and does it very efficiently.

[scdas141]

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[leonmyerson]

If by "source code" you mean the HTML source, you can do this with wget.

I tried this with wget, and while it did recursively grab every page, it gave me a text file in which everything ran on as a single line. Is there a way to make it store the HTML source in a formatted form so that a program could read and filter it line by line?

[anon]

I tried this with wget, and while it did recursively grab every page, it gave me a text file in which everything ran on as a single line.

Might be because the HTML is being delivered using Unix-style newlines instead of Windows-style. Make your parser recognize both 0x0A and 0x0D0A as line breaks if that's the case (or preprocess the documents with a simple search-and-replace script).