Re: [Lynx-dev] access/download password-protected pages

[Travis Siegel]

You can add command line parameters to include the username and password 
if you're doing this with a script, but it's just as easy to do it 
interactively after you're already logged in.  Just hit the p for print 
command, and lynx will allow you to save the page as a text file.
I used to do this all the time, though I haven't in years, mostly because 
safari on mac, and chrome on windows do what I need.  On linux, I tend to 
leave web browsing to other times when I have access to one of the other 
two oses, since there's such a huge number of sites lynx doesn't work 
with, because of the silly need for webmasters to complicate things with 
javascript.

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020, Christian wrote:

> Hi altogether,
>
> Info:
> my system: Linux/Lubuntu 18.04.4 LTS, 64 bit
> lynx: Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.16 (11 Jul 2017)
>
> Can anybody help me with the following problem?
>
> I often use lynx for documentation purposes by saving forum-pages as a
> ".txt-file" using the "-dump"-option like so:
>
> lynx -dump
> "https://itsfoss.community/t/save-changes-on-ubuntu-live-usb/5189/7"; >
> ./file.txt
>
> Normally that works very well but I can´t use this command if the page
> is password-protected.
> The resulting .txt-file yields among other info:
>
> "Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private."
>
> I have got the credentials (user name and password), so that should be
> no problem.
> But I´m at a loss as how to implement them in the command. I´m not sure
> about the syntax.
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
>
> Greetings.
> Rosika :-)
>
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