Download fully rendered Web Pages via Chrome Browser.
Often web pages loads additional content via Javascript. If these kind of pages are downloaded via CLI tools like wget or curl the scripts are not executed and the pages are not properly rendered.
With WgetChrome.exe the page is accessed via a Chrome Browser instance and downloaded after the page was fully loaded and rendered.
> WgetChrome.exe <URL> [OPTIONS]
URL: URL to navigate to. E.g. www.example.com
Additional options must be passed as key=value pair.
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| path | Optional local path to save web page. Directory structure must be exist. Default path = output.html |
| timeout | Optional timeout in seconds. Default Timeout = 30s |
| auth | Basic Authorization token passed in HTTP header |
Download page with default settings
> WgetChrome.exe www.github.com
Download page with authentification
> WgetChrome.exe www.github.com/myUser/myRepo auth=myBase64GithubAuthToken
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| 0 | Download was successful |
| 1 | Error occurred. Nothing was saved. |
Q: Do I need to install the Chrome Browser manually?
A: No, the browser will be automatically downloaded and installed by the integrated Puppeteer Sharp library
when the application is used the first time. This may take ~60sec on the first run.
The browser will be downloaded to %LOCALAPPDATA%\PuppeteerSharp and is reused in further runs.