Item8317: PublishPlugin should mimick wget: allow -r and -l, maybe -np and -nd

One killer feature of wget is the possibility to get a page and all its siblings, using: wget -r -l 5 -np which means:

• -r recurse
• -l 5 go as deep as 5 level
• -np don't go up (to avoid "Go to parent" links)

Applied to PublishPlugin, this would mean passing it a single topic, and it would get all the links on this topic, recursively.

For huge webs, it would be a very easy way to export only some pages. You'd create one master page, with all the sub-pages you want exported in it, and you'll launch PublishPlugin on this page. Then we could use -nd (no directory) or --cut-dirs=1 to control how the hierarchy is preserved.

-- OlivierRaginel - 03 Nov 2009

Yes, it's an idea, and I'd be interested to see it work. However I don't need it, and am not going to implement it unless there's a strong demand.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 13 Jun 2011

I think this needs a better spec. The plugin already follows links to referenced pages within the wiki, and can be told to copyexternal which can pull in referenced resources to one level deep. I am dubious of the merit of doing any more. Since this has been passive for 8 years now, I'm dropping it.

-- Main.CrawfordCurrie - 24 Apr 2017 - 09:20