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Okay, it's not as bold has using Headers saying "Hire Me" but I would like to emphasize that sometimes even complex tasks can be super-easy when you use the right tools. And a combination of Linux shell tools makes this task really very straightforward (literally).

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This is really cool -- particularly hxselect -- but I don't see how it's particularly simpler than using Python/requests. How would you handle following links and deduping visited URLs via piping?

Thanks - well recursive downloading of a web-page using wget is no big deal at all. And regarding particularly simpler - it is particularly shorter and pretty clear what's going on.

Thanks for the self-advertisement. That way, I was introduced to some fine reading on your blog.

Greetings from Hamburg.

Thanks for the kind words - you're most welcome

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