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You can grab all the PDFs with wget:

  wget --random-wait -R ".html,.png" -r goalkicker.com

Or download the archive directly (Not PDF, data is in JSON format): https://archive.org/details/documentation-dump.7z

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Alternatively you can download all from http://books.goalkicker.com/all.zip :)

You probably want a "--wait=?" or "-w ?" on there too, to set a non-zero wait time. The --random-wait flag just tells it to vary the wait time between 0.5 and 1.5 times the wait given by --wait.

Without --wait, the wait time is zero and either --random-wait is ignored or --random-wait is applied to 0 which has the same effect.

I was a little surprised by this, actually, when I tested it. I would have expected --random-wait with no --wait to either give a warning that you had included a useless option, or to have some useful non-zero default that it uses.

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