The CLI allows for non-interactive downloading of content. It is best suited for batch and scripting scenarios.
WCOPY uri | project [OPTION...]
If using a project file as the source, any additional arguments will override values loaded from the project file.
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
uri | Specifies the fully qualified address of the remote URL to download. Only http and https schemes are supported |
project | The filename of a WebCopy project |
/o <file | folder> | Specifies the output filename for a single URL, or folder for recursive downloads. If not specified, StdOut will be used for single file, or the current folder for recursive. Has no effect when referencing a WebCopy project or via the GUI interface |
/mode <mode> | Specifies the crawl mode. Available values are Domain, SubDomains, SiblingDomains, External, LinkResources and ParentDomain |
/recursive | Enables scanning of the downloaded URL for further files to download. Has no effect when referencing a WebCopy project or via the GUI interface |
/nomap | Disables the remapping document references within downloaded files. Only applies to recursive downloads. Has no effect if the URL parameter references a WebCopy project |
/empty | Empties the destination folder of all files and sub folders. Only applies to recursive downloads. Has no effect if the URL parameter references a WebCopy project |
/header <header> | Defines a custom header to send with each request. May be specified multiple times |
/max-redirect <count> | The maximum redirect chain length |
/no-directories | Disables directory creation. All output files will be in the same folder |
/prehead | Enables the use of the HEAD verb |
/no-prehead | Disables the use of the HEAD verb |
/proxy <address> | Proxy server address |
/proxy-user <user> | Proxy server user name |
/proxy-password <password> | Proxy server password |
/useragent <agent> | Defines a custom user agent |
/input-file <file> | The name of a text file containing a list of URLs to process |
/cookie <namevalue | file> | Either a name=value pair describing a single cookie, or the name of a file containing cookies to load, in the Netscape cookie format. May be specified multiple times |
/discard-session-cookies | If set, any session cookies loaded via an external file will be skipped |
/cookie-jar <file> | Specifies the name of a file where cookies will be written after performing a copy operation |
/xpath <expression> | XPath query to extract data from downloaded document |
/xpath-select <attribute> | Name of the attribute to extract from each matched node. If not specified, the node's inner text will be extracted |
/xpath-separator <separator> | Value to place between the extracted value from each matched node. If not specified, \r\n will be used |
/H or /? | Display this message |
/LOG <file> | Writes output to a log file. If <file> is not specified, a default name will be used |
/LOGAPPEND | If set and the log file already exists, new data will be appended to the file, otherwise the file is overwritten |
/QUIET | Suppresses most standard output |
/PAUSE | Prompts the user to press a key before the program ends |
/NOLOGO | Do not display the startup banner and copyright message |
/VERSION | Display version information only |
/STATISTICS | Display execution statistics |
/NOCRASHREPORT | Disable automatic crash logging and solution checking |
/list-arguments | Displays how input arguments were interpreted, then exits without performing any actions |