无法使用wget下载网站内容

Question

I am failing to download the below website using wget in bash:

wget --wait 1 -x -H -mk https://bittrex.com/api/v1.1/public/getorderbook?market=usdt-btc&type=sell

I have found some similar issues in other questions, however, their solution was to use -mk , which makes no difference here. The prompt just freeze after the command and nothing happens. If I try to open the same website in a browser, it will open normally. I would be grateful for any help here.

Answer 1

As already pointed out in a comment, you need to quote your URL.

The & in the URL is putting wget --wait 1 -x -H -mk https://bittrex.com/api/v1.1/public/getorderbook?market=usdt-btc into the background and causes everything after the & to be interpreted as a command, which can be a great risk depending on the URL!

If your URL contains a $ you should use single-quotes ( ' ) to pass the string literally without variable expansion, otherwise double quotes ( " ) are fine.