Introduction

Once upon a time I tried to download one month worth of a mailing list archive. I tried to do it with GetRight, but that program can only process up to 500 links in a web page, this archive had well over one thousand. At the same time, I learned that Tcl could download files, so I thought "How hard can it be to make my own program?".

So here is my little effort, it is supposed to download complete Web sites. You give it an URL, and down it goes on, happily downloading every linked URL in that site.

What this program is not

A GetRight substitute, I have seen in Usenet that some people seem to think so, while I get a big ego boost from reading it, the fact remains it isn't.

If you came here searching for a Linux answer to GetRight, look for KGet part of the Kde project or Downloader for X for Gnome. (But please, give Getleft a try)

What this program has not

A capital 'L', believe me, one capital per word is good enough for me.

What this program lacks

Getleft doesn't support Java, Javascript, ... It only understands plain Html.

Features

• While it goes, it changes the original pages, all the links get changed to relative links, so that you can surf the site in your hard disk without those pesky absolute links.
  
  
• Limited Ftp support, it will download the files but not recursively.
  
  
• Resumes downloading if interrupted.
  
  
• Filters not to download certain kind of files.
  
  
• You can get a site map before downloading.
  
  
• Getleft can follow links to external sites.
  
  
• Multilingual support, at present Getleft supports Dutch, English, Esperanto, German, French, Italian, Polish, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Spanish.
  
  If you would like Getleft to support your own language, please check this.
  
  
• Some others not worth mentioning.
  
  

License

Getleft is licensed under the terms of the GPL version 2. This means you can do whatever you want with the program, except claim that you wrote it yourself and change the license.

It also means that Getleft comes with NO WARRANTY whatsoever, in fact, I would be surprised if it happened to work at all.

Announcements

Apart from here, I usually announce Getleft releases in these sites:

If you wish, you can rate Getleft in both of them.

Getleft at SourceForge

In the meantime, you can subscribe to the mailing list they provide for Getleft.