using wget in a cron job to download files onto my server - cron

Question

I use a service to generate sitemaps and i'm trying to automate the retrieval process.
I have been using wget to fetch the data and add it to my server
here is my wget statement:
wget --no-check-certificate --quiet \
--output-document sitemap.xml \
--method POST \
--timeout=0 \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--body-data 'method=download_sitemap&api_key=[SECRET_KEY]&site_id=[SECRET_ID]&sitemap_id=sitemap.xml' \
'https://pro-sitemaps.com/api/'
^this code works great for me no issues.
I cronjob -e and added the code to my cron folder using nano which looks like this
25 0 * * * "/etc/letsencrypt"/acme.sh --cron --home "/etc/letsencrypt" > /dev/null
07 18 * * * wget --no-check-certificate --quiet \ --output-document "/FILE/PATH/sitemap.xml" \ --method POST \ --timeout=0 \ --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \ --body-data 'method=download_sitemap&api_key=[SECRET_KEY]&site_id=[SECRET]&sitemap_id=sitemap.xml' \ 'https://pro-sitemaps.com/api/'
My problem is that my code is not running in the cron folder. I have set up the time, so my server time matches my local time. I have tried running the wget statement all on one line and removing any extra spacing in the code block. I tried shorthanding the commands (-T instead of --timeout) & I have tried adding a space at the end of each cron job. I am a bit stumped. Its probably something really simple that I missed in the documentation. Does anybody have any suggestions or notice anything off with what i'm doing in my cron folder?
I have observed these two q's which is where I have gotten the ideas so far troubleshooting: How to get CRON to call in the correct PATHs
& this q: CronJob not running
Again, I have no issues when I run the wget statement in my terminal. It pulls everything just as expected. My issues is just when I put the wget command in my cron folder the command wont run.

Answer 1

\ denotes line continuation, you should not use it if you have all in one line command, for example
wget --continue \
https://www.example.com
after conversion to one line is
wget --continue https://www.example.com
Regarding cron if you have working command you might create file with it and use it through bash e.g. you might create fetcher.sh with content as follows
wget -P /path/to/catalog https://www.example.com
inside /path/to/catalog and then add
58 23 * * * bash /path/to/catalog/fetcher.sh
where /path/to/catalog is path to existing catalog, then it would download example domain into /path/to/catalog each 2 minutes to midnight.