Does anyone know how to wget a phpBB forum including pages only available to registered users? The Yesterweb Forum is going down and I really want to try and archive it. I've tried a couple times but putting my login info into the command still locks me out of the user-only posts.
2 years ago
I don't know if this is working, but try.
http://httrack.kauler.com/help/CatchURL_tutorial 路 2 years ago
http://httrack.kauler.com/help/CatchURL_tutorial
Sorry. Didn't mean to be cryptic. The cookie jar is simply the file in which the cookies are stored. In this case, cookies.txt. You also likely need to pass --keep-session-cookies. But crucially, that command only performs the login. You need to run the command again, with --load-cookies (passing the cookie file again), and -r (or --mirror), and probably a number of other options to fine tune how the recursive download should go. I suggest looking up the man page, or an online guide. I can't remember everything from memory, but I'm pretty sure it should be doable. Best of luck! 路 2 years ago
@elektito I'll be honest, I don't totally understand the question. I used the command "wget --save-cookies cookies.txt --post-data 'username=username&password=password' https://forum.yesterweb.org" using my login info which saved the site but wouldn't display the site as if I was logged in.
@mozz Yeah. I had my gripes, but it was a neat project. They already deleted the Discord, which bugs me because they had so many good resources there. 路 2 years ago
How do you pass credentials? If you use the right cookie jar, you should be able to get to the user-only parts of the site fine. 路 2 years ago
Man that鈥檚 sad, yesterweb is/was really cool little community :( 路 2 years ago