Survival library torrents, free

(Markdown format) Updated Aug 2019

Total size of CD3WD and PSSurv libraries: 23gb.

• CD3WD March 2015 (13gb): Sometimes the info is an HTML page, sometimes PDF, sometimes it links to another site. Page for torrent: http://1337x.to/torrent/2037872/CD3WD-survival-skills-encyclopedia/. One direct link to torrent file: http://itorrents.org/torrent/24E750EFD6640A89EB0D664633904F5BD0BA4AB6.torrent. Or: Magnet link
• CD3WD backup. Probably old as it's only 800mb. This one only links to the old (inactive) CD3WD site for the single zip file. The other files here are singular html files which you will have to grab with HTtrack or wget. http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM Another backup: https://the-eye.eu/public/Random/CD3WD/.
• CD3WD on The-Eye.eu. https://the-eye.eu/public/Random/CD3WD/. Use wget to retrieve whole directory.
• Pole Shift survival lib, Mar 2015 (9.9gb): Torrent: Page with multiple torrent links: http://1337x.to/torrent/1901411/PoleShift-Survival-Files/. Magnet link. This does not appear to be updated that often hence the 2015 version is still pretty valid.

Other links to libraries

• Links to other libraries: http://www.reddit.com/r/Survival/comments/ug5v1/building_the_ultimate_survival_library_please/
• Pole Shift Lib. Try getting this one using wget or Winhttrack, but with a 30 minute wait between files. Try not to suck up bandwidth. http://www.pssurvival.com
• Rachel Offline. Huge repository of various videos, books, info like: https://racheloffline.org/ Download only the groups you want, they call them "content packs": http://dev.worldpossible.org/cgi/rachelmods.pl
• Wikipedia english download. Main download page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download. Wikipedia will often kill your download process after X minutes so use a higher speed for this one.
  • The English dumps have several sites to download from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#English-language_Wikipedia. This page also tells you how to deal with very large files and the file size limit for a file for many operating systems.
  • Download as torrent (Please try the torrent first. It relieves congestion on Wikipedia servers): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#enwiki
  • From Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/wikimediadownloads. This stuff looks really old, from 2008.
  • Various types of dumps like SQL, HTML (HTML is not updated since 2008), etc.: https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
  • Kiwix files can be read by a free Kiwix reader. https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/. For English look for filename that begins with "wikipedia_en" where "en" is for English. "en" is just the language code.
  • If you want a current Wikipedia on a flash drive, there will be a charge for the cost of the flash drive. Contact bacca400 @ comcast . net.

Rules for downloading from websites

Or via web spiders like wget.

1. Don't be a bandwidth hog. Limit bandwidth usage to around 50kbps or less. Or you'll get booted and your IP might get banned. If the hosting computer kills your download process, see #3 below and increase your speed limit.
2. Wait 30 minutes between file downloads. Most packages have this option. Because some servers, like Wikipedia, have automatic software to boot people who use too much bandwidth or make too many requests for files.
3. Some unix computers hosting the files will kill your download process if it takes too long, so you might want to use a higher speed limit like 150kbps. This limit is hard-coded into the kernal and the sysadmin can do nothing to change it unless they recompile the kernal, which is not for beginners at all. Some will kill your download after an hour, or 24 hours.

FREE Software to download web pages or sites

1. Winhttrack. My favorite I've used for 5+ years. This has Windows and command line versions of the util. Also for Linux and Android. http://www.httrack.com/page/2/
2. GNU wget. Command line version only for Windows cmd.exe. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm. DDG search for wget. There might be more than one version for Windows.
   • v1.2 64-bit zip file here.
   • How to download, install, and use wget under windows. Good for beginners! https://builtvisible.com/download-your-website-with-wget/
3. Wget2 will make simultaneous downloads. Not sure if this is done yet. https://github.com/rockdaboot/wget2
4. Uget. Use this Windows app to download multiple large files. I don't know if it will support directories and get all files in the dir and its subdirs. https://ugetdm.com/screenshots/. Free, with queues. Also at Sourceforge.