Similarily, `curl` is another tool to handle internet requests, however, a look at the [man](https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html) page shows that it supports more protocols than `wget` which only handles https(s) and ftp requests.
To put it short `wget` will prove useful whenever you have to download a part of a website while exploring links, while curl can be very handy to tweak single requests in an atomic fashion.
Moreover, if you want to analyze web information, firefox and chromium (I didn't try on other browsers) allows exporting requests directly as a curl command from the web inspector, which makes the job less painful than with [netcat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netcat).
Where `<n>` denotes the number of subdirectories to omit from saving. For instance, to download the cover images from this blog at the address “<https://blog.epheme.re/images/covers/>”, you can put:
Anyhow, a simpler method, if you don't need the directory structure (for instance in the above example), is to use the `--no-directories`/`-nd` option. However, the cut-dirs can be useful if you need some architecture information (e.g., if the files are sorted in directories by date or categories)
Sometimes, [robots.txt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard) forbids you the access to some resources. You can easily bypass this with the option `-e robots=off`.
Occasionally, when the server is busy answering you, `wget` will try again and again (20 times by default), which can slower your mirroring quite a bit (especially if the timeout is big). You can lower this bound using the… `--tries`/`-t` option.
Using the `--spider` option to not actually download files, you can use it as a debugger for your website with `--output-file`/`-o` to log the result in a file.
