WEB2DISK(1)

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version 9.14.0 · 8 versions
, in arch rolling, nixos 26.05, ubuntu stonking

🎀 NAME 🎀

Bestie, meet web2disk. Like, that's the whole name, that's the whole assignment — web2disk is web2disk, no notes, no cap 💅 She lives in the calibre family (that's why the top of the page says WEB2DISK(1), you know how it goes).

Here's literally how you call her:

web2disk URL

Where URL is, for example, <https://google.com>.

🫶 real talk though: whenever you pass arguments to web2disk that have spaces in them, put the arguments in quotation marks. Do not be out here raw-dogging a path with spaces, she will not get the vibe. For example: "/some path/with spaces"

✨ [OPTIONS] ✨

Okay so nobody is reading all of these in one sitting, but they're all here, every single one, no gatekeeping 💖

  • --base-dir, -d — the base folder that URL gets saved into. Default is . (yeah, just the current directory, she's chill).
  • --delay — the minimum interval, in seconds, between consecutive fetches. Default is 0 s — like, absolutely no waiting, go go go.
  • --dont-download-stylesheets — do not download the CSS stylesheets. Skip the glow-up, keep it raw.
  • --encoding — the character encoding for the websites you're trying to download. The default is that she tries to guess the encoding herself, which honestly, most of the time she nails it.
  • --filter-regexp — any link that matches this regular expression gets ignored, periodt. You can specify this option multiple times, and in that case, as long as any regexp matches a link, that link is ignored. By default, no links are ignored. And if you specify both filter regexp and match regexp? Then the filter regexp is applied first 🌈.
  • --help, -h — shows this help message and exits. The classic.
  • --match-regexp — only links that match this regular expression will be followed. You can specify this one multiple times too, and in that case, as long as a link matches any one regexp, it gets followed. By default all links are followed — she's an extrovert like that.
  • --max-files, -n — the maximum number of files to download. Heads up though: this only applies to files from <a href> tags. Default is 9223372036854775807 — yeah bestie that's a big number, it's giving "no limit" energy.
  • --max-recursions, -r — the maximum number of levels to recurse, i.e. the depth of links to follow. Default 1.
  • --timeout, -t — the timeout, in seconds, to wait for a response from the server. Default: 10.0 s. After that she's moving on, she has main character energy to protect 🔥.
  • --verbose — shows detailed output information. Useful for debugging — i.e. when something's being cursed and you need to see exactly what 🙈.
  • --version — shows the program's version number and exits.

👑 Author 👑

Kovid Goyal — that's the author, that's the icon, no elaboration needed.

Kovid Goyal

okay that's the whole page bestie, you ate, go download some websites 🦋 and for the credits moment: this was version 9.14.0 of web2disk, dated August 28, 2026, and yeah — it's the WEB2DISK(1) manual. periodt. 💅✨

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