In this tutorial, we will be building a simple node.js app that will download website source code files including HTML, CSS, js, and images of the website from URL in node.js. For this, we will be using <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-site-downloader" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">node-site-downloader</a> which is based entirely on <a href="https://github.com/website-scraper/node-website-scraper" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">node-webiste-scraper</a>, an awesome website scraper library. With this npm package, we can Download a website locally without any configuration right from your terminal. So let's get started. <h2>Requirments</h2><ul><li>Nodejs version &gt;= 8</li></ul> <h2>Installation</h2><pre class="ql-syntax" spellcheck="false">npm&nbsp;install&nbsp;-g&nbsp;node-site-downloader

</pre><h2>Usage</h2><pre class="ql-syntax" spellcheck="false">node-site-downloader&nbsp;download&nbsp;DOMAIN&nbsp;START_POINT&nbsp;OUTPUT_FOLDER&nbsp;[VERBOSE]&nbsp;[OUTPUT_FOLDER_SUFFIX]&nbsp;[INCLUDE_IMAGES]
</pre> Make sure you add the prefix https:// at the starting of the domain if you don’t write this you will get an error Now open up a terminal and copy-paste the below command and see the magic. <pre class="ql-syntax" spellcheck="false">node-site-downloader download -s https://google.com -d https://google.com -v --include-images -o sitefiles
</pre> You can see that inside the command we have some options like: download It is a flag that you are passing to the CLI tool that you wanna download the website. It is mandatory --include-images It is the option telling that you need to download the images of the website as well. -d It stands for the domain option that you are passing. -o is the output folder path. Your files are downloaded to the folder sitefiles. Happy Coding ...

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