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SuckIT

SuckIT allows you to recursively visit and download a website's content to your disk.

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Features

  • [x] Vacuums the entirety of a website recursively
  • [x] Uses multithreading
  • [x] Writes the website's content to your disk
  • [x] Enables offline navigation
  • [x] Offers random delays to avoid IP banning
  • [ ] Saves application state on CTRL-C for later pickup

Options

USAGE:
    suckit [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <url>

FLAGS: -c, --continue-on-error Flag to enable or disable exit on error --disable-certs-checks Dissable SSL certificates verification --dry-run Do everything without saving the files to the disk -h, --help Prints help information -V, --version Prints version information -v, --verbose Enable more information regarding the scraping process --visit-filter-is-download-filter Use the dowload filter in/exclude regexes for visiting as well

OPTIONS: -a, --auth <auth>... HTTP basic authentication credentials space-separated as "username password host". Can be repeated for multiple credentials as "u1 p1 h1 u2 p2 h2" --cookie <cookie> Cookie to send with each request, format: key1=value1;key2=value2 [default: ]

--delay <delay> Add a delay in seconds between downloads to reduce the likelihood of getting banned [default: 0]

-d, --depth <depth> Maximum recursion depth to reach when visiting. Default is -1 (infinity) [default: -1]

-e, --exclude-download <exclude-download> Regex filter to exclude saving pages that match this expression [default: $^]

--exclude-visit <exclude-visit> Regex filter to exclude visiting pages that match this expression [default: $^]

--ext-depth <ext-depth> Maximum recursion depth to reach when visiting external domains. Default is 0. -1 means infinity [default: 0] -i, --include-download <include-download> Regex filter to limit to only saving pages that match this expression [default: .*]

--include-visit <include-visit> Regex filter to limit to only visiting pages that match this expression [default: .*]

-j, --jobs <jobs> Maximum number of threads to use concurrently [default: 1] -o, --output <output> Output directory --random-range <random-range> Generate an extra random delay between downloads, from 0 to this number. This is added to the base delay seconds [default: 0] -t, --tries <tries> Maximum amount of retries on download failure [default: 20] -u, --user-agent <user-agent> User agent to be used for sending requests [default: suckit]

ARGS: <url> Entry point of the scraping

Example

A common use case could be the following:

suckit http://books.toscrape.com -j 8 -o /path/to/downloaded/pages/

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Installation

As of right now, SuckIT does not work on Windows.

To install it, you need to have Rust installed.

instructions on how to install Rust.
  • If you just want to install the suckit executable, you can simply run
cargo install --git https://github.com/skallwar/suckit
  • Now, run it from anywhere with the suckit command.

Arch Linux

suckit can be installed from available AUR packages using an AUR helper. For example,

yay -S suckit

__Want to contribute ? Feel free to open an issue or submit a PR !_

License

SuckIT is primarily distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the Apache License (Version 2.0)

See LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.

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