How do I use Wget to download all images into a single folder from a URL

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I am using wget to download all images from a website and it works fine but it stores the original hierarchy of the site with all the subfolders and so the images are dotted around  Is there a way so that it will just download all the images into a single folder  The syntax I m using at the moment is   wget -r -A jpeg jpg bmp gif png http   www somedomain com

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The proposed solutions are perfect to download the images and if it is enough for you to save all the files in the directory you are using. But if you want to save all the images in a specified directory without reproducing the entire hierarchical tree of the site, try to add "cut-dirs" to the line proposed by Jon.

wget -r -P /save/location -A jpeg,jpg,bmp,gif,png http://www.boia.de --cut-dirs=1 --cut-dirs=2 --cut-dirs=3

in this case cut-dirs will prevent wget from creating sub-directories until the 3th level of depth in the website hierarchical tree, saving all the files in the directory you specified.You can add more 'cut-dirs' with higher numbers if you are dealing with sites with a deep structure.

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Try this   wget -nd -r -P  save location -A jpeg jpg bmp gif png http   www somedomain com   Here is some more information   -nd prevents the creation of a directory hierarchy  i e  no directories    -r enables recursive retrieval  See Recursive Download for more information   -P sets the directory prefix where all files and directories are saved to   -A sets a whitelist for retrieving only certain file types  Strings and patterns are accepted  and both can be used in a comma separated list  as seen above   See Types of Files for more information

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wget utility retrieves files from World Wide Web  WWW  using widely used protocols like HTTP  HTTPS and FTP  Wget utility is freely available package and license is under GNU GPL License  This utility can be install any Unix-like Operating system including Windows and MAC OS  It   s a non-interactive command line tool  Main feature of Wget is it   s robustness  It   s designed in such way so that it works in slow or unstable network connections  Wget automatically start download where it was left off in case of network problem  Also downloads file recursively  It   ll keep trying until file has be retrieved completely   Install wget in linux machine sudo apt-get install wget   Create a folder where you want to download files   sudo mkdir myimages cd myimages  Right click on the webpage and for example if you want image location right click on image and copy image location  If there are multiple images then follow the below   If there are 20 images to download from web all at once  range starts from 0 to 19   wget http   joindiaspora com img 0  19  jpg

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I wrote a shellscript that solves this problem for multiple websites  https   github com eduardschaeli wget-image-scraper   Scrapes images from a list of urls with wget

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Try this one   wget -nd -r -P  save location  -A jpeg jpg bmp gif png http   www domain com   and wait until it deletes all extra information

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According to the man page the -P flag is       -P prefix        --directory-prefix prefix            Set directory prefix to prefix   The directory prefix is the            directory where all other files and subdirectories will be saved            to  i e  the top of the retrieval tree   The default is    the            current directory     This mean that it only specifies the destination but where to save the directory tree  It does not flatten the tree into just one directory  As mentioned before the -nd flag actually does that    Jon in the future it would be beneficial to describe what the flag does so we understand how something works

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wget -nd -r -l 2 -A jpg jpeg png gif http   t co    -nd  no directories  save all files to the current directory  -P directory changes the target directory  -r -l 2  recursive level 2 -A  accepted extensions     wget -nd -H -p -A jpg jpeg png gif -e robots off example tumblr com page  1  2     -H  span hosts  wget doesn t download files from different domains or subdomains by default  -p  page requisites  includes resources like images on each page  -e robots off  execute command robotos off as if it was part of  wgetrc file  This turns off the robot exclusion which means you ignore robots txt and the robot meta tags  you should know the implications this comes with  take care         Example  Get all  jpg files from an exemplary directory listing     wget -nd -r -l 1 -A jpg http   example com listing

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