Why wget ignores query string in the url?

Question

I want to use wget to download the following 18 html files:

http://www.ted.com/talks/quick-list?sort=date&order=desc&page=18  
http://www.ted.com/talks/q         


        

Answer 1

1. Store your list of URLs in a file (each URL in a separate line!!):

   echo "http://www.ted.com/talks/quick-list?sort=date&order=desc&page=18 http://www.ted.com/talks/quick-list?sort=date&order=desc&page=17 ... " > wget_filelist.txt

2. Call wget to retrieve the stuff:

   wget -i wget_filelist.txt