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Christopher Su
@nitrogen · UW CSE. Formerly Google, Msft, Cisco.
So it does "wget -r" for you?
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Henrik Harju
@henrikharju
@nitrogen It's wget with a ton of options and a special twist.
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@henrikharju @nitrogen plus you'll get a preview straight in your browser which is delivered over a fast fiber network
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jari
@jarizwarts · Frontend @ Oberon.nl
@henrikharju Care enlightening us on what the 'twist' might be? Not much of an argument...
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@jarizwarts @henrikharju mainly using the right options based on our extensive experience, following redirects and fixing some other shortcomings you might usually run in to
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Christopher Su
@nitrogen · UW CSE. Formerly Google, Msft, Cisco.
@harzzn @henrikharju does your "fast fiber network" really matter if the download is bottlenecked by the user's bandwidth anyways?
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Christopher Su
@nitrogen · UW CSE. Formerly Google, Msft, Cisco.
@harzzn @jarizwarts @henrikharju the twist is they get your email
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Andrei Oprisan
@andreioprisan
@nitrogen @harzzn @jarizwarts @henrikharju the twist is that you get hours of your life back instead of trying to get all the potential corner cases right for simply wanting to download a page in its entirety
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Hardik Pandya
@hvpandya · Product Designer
@jarizwarts @henrikharju why so much animosity Jari?
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Roberto Estivill
@roberto_estivill
@nitrogen more like httrack i would say :P
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Ramesh Padala
@rameshdot0 · Maker of flexbot.ai & yogatailor
@hvpandya @jarizwarts @henrikharju i think i just understood the reason for the "animosity". they are asking for $28 to download a simple webpage.
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Jan Ahrend
@janahrend · PhD Student, University of Oxford
@andreioprisan @nitrogen @harzzn @jarizwarts @henrikharju 'Corner cases': wget --mirror --convert-links --adjust-extension --page-requisites -U Mozilla --no-parent -e robots=off --wait=3 --random-wait --limit-rate=900k --no-check-certificate https://websitedownloader.io/
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Tom Redman
@redman · Technical Product Manager, Buffer
@janahrend Like a charm. Thanks.
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