SuckIT

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

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

|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| |-a, --auth|Provide usernames and passwords for the downloader to use| |--dry-run|Do everything without saving the files to the disk|

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.

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.