SuckIT

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

Features

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

Options

Option	Behavior
-h, --help	Displays help information
-v, --verbose	Activate Verbose output
-d, --depth	Specify the level of depth to go to when visiting the website
-j, --jobs	Number of threads to use
-o, --output	Output directory where the downloaded files are written
-t, --tries	Number of times to retry when the downloading of a page fails
-u, --user-agent	User agent to be used for sending requests
-i, --include	Specify a regex to include pages that match this pattern
-e, --exclude	Specify a regex to exclude pages that match this pattern

Example

A common use case could be the following:

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

Installation

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

To install it, you need to have Rust installed.

• Check out this link for 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.

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.