: Wget - download external images I'm using wget -A to download images from a page. This works fine, when images are hosted on the same domain as the page. But this won't download images hotlinked

@Ann8826881

You need the -H (resp. --span-hosts) parameter. It enables downloading of linked resources that are hosted at different hosts/domains.

In addition you may block specific domains with --exclude-domains (Example: --exclude-domains=example.com,example.org)

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@Harper822

Some adminsys (me included) block the wget user-agent on some files to avoid hotlinking (for example).

There are also other tools like wget: cURL, httpie, etc.. but they also can be blocked by their user-agent.

So it might not be a problem from you, but from domain you are querying.

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@Pierce454

You have to specify the domain you allow wget to follow using -D [domain list] or --domains=[domain list] (coma separated)

Note: I don't know if it handles wildcards.

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