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I'm using wget -A to download images from a page.
This works fine, when images are hosted on the same domain as the page.
But this won't download images hotlinked from other pages (e.g. imageshack)

How can I download the external images as well using wget or similar tool?

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You need the -H (resp. --span-hosts) parameter. It enables downloading of linked resources that are hosted at different hosts/domains.

In addition you may block specific domains with --exclude-domains (Example: --exclude-domains=example.com,example.org)

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  • The first sentence solves the problem as per the post, in my opinion. Someone should mark this answer as correct.
    – Sridhar Sarnobat
    Commented Apr 22, 2014 at 3:24
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You have to specify the domain you allow wget to follow using -D [domain list] or --domains=[domain list] (coma separated)

Note: I don't know if it handles wildcards.

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Some adminsys (me included) block the wget user-agent on some files to avoid hotlinking (for example).

There are also other tools like wget: cURL, httpie, etc.. but they also can be blocked by their user-agent.

So it might not be a problem from you, but from domain you are querying.

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