How do I clone website ? Via httrack, F12 or wget [closed]

[Kimonda]

I tried to make a copy of a site through httrack but I can't do anything. A lot of useless code appears that is useless.

I tried using the Save All resoucers extension and I have to copy every page from the website. And then I don't know how to join all the pages to make and edit a site.

I wanted to copy an entire site without useless code, and then edit it my way.

I was also told about wget. I already put the .exe file in the system 32 folder but I can't/don't know how to copy the website or see in which folder the code was.

In your opinion what is the best way to copy a website?

Thank you

 

[CodeMonkeyJ]

Yep, wget's the tool of choice on this one. Try something like the following.

wget '<your URL here>'  -r -p -e robots=off --level=<how deep to go>

-r tells it to follow URLs and download more, recursively
-p tells it to "download all the files that are necessary to properly display a given HTML page"
--level tells it how many URLs deep to follow. If you're doing this on something that cross-links a lot, like Wikipedia, you'll be many, many layers deep and that may not be desirable.
-e robots=off tells it to ignore the robots.txt file, which is generally considered rude, but that's mostly for indexers and such that periodically scan sites; it may or may not be required, depending on your target.