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Python 3 wget Library Script to Download HTML Source Code of Website Using URL in Terminal
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Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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So in this video I will show you how to
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download the source code of any web page
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inside a Python script using the wget uh
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package Wget is actually a very handy
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package by which you can actually
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request the source code of any web
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page And uh the command is simple First
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of all you just need to install this
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package pip install
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wget Uh I've already installed it simply
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execute this command to install this
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package and then I have just written the
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simple script here Uh you can see it is
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uh downloading this article from this
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website Uh
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it's this is actually you can take any
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website for
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example So this is actually a web page
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here So it's it will simply download
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this inside
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the your local hard disk If I run this
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Python script here you will see
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that it will save this
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uh whole HTML web page to this location
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So inside pages it will create this
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pages directory You will see it will
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download this HTML source code and uh it
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will store it locally So now we can
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start
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this So if I start this you will see it
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will run this localhost 3000 So now we
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are running it inside offline without
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internet internet connection So if you
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want to download any web page locally
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inside your machine using the python
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script then for that you can actually
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use this package wget So it's very
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simple You s first of all require this
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package wget and then you specify
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whichever URL that you want to download
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or let's suppose I take my own website
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for example I take this web page for
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example I copy the URL simply paste it
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and then I just give it a file name and
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uh I simply say wet dot it contains this
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download function which actually fetches
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the web page from this URL and we pass
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the URL and then we mention the second
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argument where to store it So inside
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this we specify the location where we
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need to store
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it
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So so here we'll be simply be mentioning
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it where to create this So let me give
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it a file name free media tools
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HTML and then we can print out a simple
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statement to the user that
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your it successfully saved So now if you
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run this Python script inside the
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terminal just you will see it's saved If
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I check it now you will see it will
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create a new file free media tools html
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It actually downloaded that full source
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code of that specific HTML page that we
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pasted If you see
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that So we can now run this web page
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locally You will see localhost 3000 So
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we are running it locally So in this way
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you can download any web page source
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code inside your local machine You just
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need to copy the URL and then paste it
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inside the script So this module which
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is wget module is a very handy module by
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which you can first of all import that
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you specify which URL that you want to
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download Then it contains this download
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function which downloads the fetches the
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web page source code Uh thank you very
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