Download whole image archives using Wget (Windows)
For those who didn't know, Wget is a program that retrieves content from Web servers.
It's very useful if you, for example, want to download a helluvalot of image files from one page,
without having to right-click and save every single image. It can be any kind of file, not just images.
For me it came in very handy when I designed Habbo fansites.
I used it to download whole archives of images that I could use as content images for different
news articles and/or sections of pages.
I just registered an account here, so I thought I'd start this journey by putting out a simple tutorial.
Let's get to it!
What I'm going to do is to download Habborators badge archive, located in /badges/.
(You can do this with any image archive, just don't sell or release copyrighted prop)
- Download Wget for Windows 32-bit or Windows 64-bit. (Direct download!)
- Make a new folder named "wget" in your C: drive.
- Place wget.exe in your new folder.
- Run Command Prompt. Easiest way to do this is to search for cmd.exe and hit enter.
- Run Wget from the Command Prompt using the code hidden in the spoiler.
- Now Wget is running. It's time for us to download the badge archive. Use code in spoiler.
- Hit enter! The download will now start.
- When the download is done, you can find all of your images or other files in your wget folder.
It took Wget a little bit over 2 minutes to locate and save all the files (2686).
If you have any questions about this tutorial, feel free to ask me.
As for Wget and its commands, you can type in the following code in Command Prompt for instructions.
Hope this was useful!
