Here are a few tips to download the data with wget. # NOTE: always have a trailing / after the target directory that you want to download. # e.g. specify # https://genome.senckenberg.de/download/TOGA2/Genomes/Mammalia/ # and not # https://genome.senckenberg.de/download/TOGA2/Genomes/Mammalia # to download the entire Genomes or GenomeAlignments or TOGA2 directory, use these commands with --cut-dirs=2 wget -e robots=off --recursive --no-check-certificate --no-parent --no-host-directories --reject "index.html*" --reject "robots.txt" --directory-prefix=./ --cut-dirs=2 https://genome.senckenberg.de/download/TOGA2/Genomes/ wget -e robots=off --recursive --no-check-certificate --no-parent --no-host-directories --reject "index.html*" --reject "robots.txt" --directory-prefix=./ --cut-dirs=2 https://genome.senckenberg.de/download/TOGA2/GenomeAlignments/ wget -e robots=off --recursive --no-check-certificate --no-parent --no-host-directories --reject "index.html*" --reject "robots.txt" --directory-prefix=./ --cut-dirs=2 https://genome.senckenberg.de/download/TOGA2/TOGA2/ # to download a subdirectory, here Genomes/Mammalia, set --cut-dirs=3 wget -e robots=off --recursive --no-check-certificate --no-parent --no-host-directories --reject "index.html*" --reject "robots.txt" --directory-prefix=./ --cut-dirs=3 https://genome.senckenberg.de/download/TOGA2/Genomes/Mammalia/ # to download only a specific species (here Rice whale), set --cut-dirs=4 wget -e robots=off --recursive --no-check-certificate --no-parent --no-host-directories --reject "index.html*" --reject "robots.txt" --directory-prefix=./ --cut-dirs=4 https://genome.senckenberg.de/download/TOGA2/Genomes/Mammalia/Balaenoptera_ricei__Rices_whale__HLbalRic2__GCF_028023285.1/