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

This is certainly because of the links in the HTML don't end up with /.

Wget will not follow this has it think it's a file (but doesn't match your filter):

page

But will follow this:

page

You can use the --debug option to see if it's the actual problem.

I don't know any good solution for this. In my opinion this is a bug.