Download all files of a particular type from a website using wget stops in the starting url

Question

The following did not work.

wget -r -A .pdf home_page_url

It stop with the following message:

....
Removing site.com         


        

Answer 1

It may be based on a robots.txt. Try adding -e robots=off.

Other possible problems are cookie based authentication or agent rejection for wget. See these examples.

EDIT: The dot in ".pdf" is wrong according to sunsite.univie.ac.at