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Mirroring a website where you need to log in first

Mirroring a website where you need to log in first

I needed to make an complete offline copy of a website the other day but was having difficulties as you needed to login to the site to get the content.  Luckily, an firefox add-on plus the wonderful wget came to the rescue.

Export cookies (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/?src=api) is a firefox add-on that lets you export cookies in a format that wget understands.

So here is the procedure:
1) Log in to the website
2) Export the cookies into a cookies.txt file
3) Run wget
wget --load-cookies cookies.txt -mkEp  http://website.com
4) Hey-presto
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/?src=api

This script works really in letting me scrobble to last.fm what I am listening to in google music.

This script works really in letting me scrobble to last.fm what I am listening to in google music.
http://www.danielslaughter.com/projects/google-music-with-lastfm/