Imperial Command

Site Ripper a GUI for Wget

Jun 14, 2009 by Balogh Lajos

SiteRipper is a full feature GUI (Graphical User Interface) for wget, a commandline tool.
It makes use of the GTK libraries and is released under the GPL license.
For example use siteripper to grab entire wallpaper site's contents or keep copies of news and information sites for historical purposes.

With Wgets extensive options, pages that require passwords and even dynamic site pages such as .php, .asp can be saved to disk. The sessions features makes it easy to fine tune setting for difficult sites and not need to remember long cryptic comman lines.

  • Most commonly used wget options available
  • Saves multiple settings with customized names (no limit on number of "sessions")
  • Captures and prints wget output nicely on its own window
  • Needs wget installed on the system (command line tool only) and GTK
  • Available for free and with sources!

Compile from source

July 24, 2009 by Balogh Lajos

Site Ripper is based on Grsync the GUI for rsync.


#apt-get install devscripts
#apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev dpatch autotools-dev

After that, extract the files to your working directory and use, ./configure, make, make install.
(Also available as a deb package and the Ubuntu PPA repository - see download page for details)

Site Ripper