Use Wget to create a static copy of a site

Step-by-step guide

1. Install Wget 
   - windows: Wget comes with Cygwin installer[https://cygwin.com/install.html].
   - Mac: 

   First install brew:

   ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
   

   And then install wget with brew and also enable openressl for TLS support

   brew install wget --with-libressl

   
   
   

2. Run the following code to crawl www.example.com and save it as flat files to an arbitrary directory of your choosing (noted by /path/to/destination/directory): wget -P /path/to/destination/directory/ -mpck --user-agent="" -e robots=off --wait 1 -E https://www.example.com/

   See this code explained on explainshell

    

3. Double check your local copies and replace the absolute links with relative links so that your css, js and image files will work.

I used three commands to get all the givingday sites (live mode and leadership mode need to be downloaded separately).  

Somehow wget adds ".html" at the end of ".css", ".js", 'png', and ".ico" files, so they became ".css.html", ".js.html", "png.html".  I need to do a replace in all html pages to make the css, js and image file names right.

And I need to replace all absolute links that wget fail to replace.

Related articles

https://swsblog.stanford.edu/blog/creating-static-copy-website

https://raywoodcockslatest.wordpress.com/2014/02/14/configuring-wget/

https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-export-a-WordPress-site-to-a-static-HTML

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