Download all images at distance 2 using Mac OS X

Question

I need to download all the images from a website on my computer. The images are not listed all in one page. Instead I have an index page that links a set of pages (page1.html, page2.html, ...) each with many images inside.

DownThemAll of Firefox only downloads the images from a single page.

There is no wget, but still I understand it would download the images from one page. In a sense I need the images at distance 2. Linked to a link from a page.

Answer 1

You can install wget on OS X through Homebrew or MacPorts.*

Then, it's as simple as:

wget -nd -A jpg,gif -r http://example.com

• The -nd option does not create a directory for each path segment.
• -A sets the file types allowed.
• -r crawls recursively.
• You can add -l 2 (or similar) to restrict it to two levels of recursion.

_{* If this is too complicated for you. alternatively there's a 2008 blog with a prebuilt version, but it might not work in all cases.}