How to wget in a different language —21 May 2008

Some websites are smart and depending on your location they make assumption on the interface language. For example I’m in Japan and so when I go to google for the first time the page will be in Japanese.

The same thing happens with this command:

wget http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=2008&country=26 -O calendar.html

The output will be in Japanese, which is really wonderful and all, but…

To tell the website that I want the English interface:

wget --header='Accept-Language: en-us' http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=2008&country=26 -O calendar.html