multiple wget -r a site simultaneously?

Question

any command / wget with options?

For multithreaded download a site recursively and simultaneously?

Answer 1

Well, you can always run multiple instances of wget, no?

Example:

wget -r http://somesite.example.org/ &
wget -r http://othersite.example.net/ &

etc. This syntax will work in any Unix-like environment (e.g. Linux or MacOS); not sure how to do this in Windows.

Wget itself does not support multithreaded operations - at least, neither the manpage nor its website has any mention of this. Anyway, since wget supports HTTP keepalive, the bottleneck is usually the bandwidth of the connection, not the number of simultaneous downloads.