Not downloaded, the link will refer to its full Internet address Modified to point to Because of this, local browsing works reliably: if a linked file was downloaded, the link will refer to its local name if it was bar/img.gif), then the link in doc.html will be The links to files that have not been downloaded by Wget will be changed to include host name and absolute path of theĮxample: if the downloaded file /foo/doc.html links to /bar/img.gif (or to.Works reliably for arbitrary combinations of directories. The links to files that have been downloaded by Wget will be changed to refer to the file they point to as a relative link.Įxample: if the downloaded file /foo/doc.html links to /bar/img.gif, also downloaded, then the link in doc.html will be.Sheets, hyperlinks to non-HTML content, etc.Įach link will be changed in one of the two ways: To external content, such as embedded images, links to style Only the visible hyperlinks, but any part of the document that links attributes to reference local files instead of the remote website.Īfter the download is complete, convert the links in the document to make them suitable for local viewing. It does that by converting the href/ src/etc. convert-links modifies the downloaded html files so the downloaded website works off-line. Is there a way to separate wget's download and -convert-links functionality? For those unfamiliar with wget and/or -convert-links, long story short, wget can be used to download a website.

How to convert a file to a link