Wget Macro for downloading multiple URLS? - linux

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Hello!
I am trying to Wget an entire website for personal educational use. Here's what the URL looks like:
example.com/download.php?id=1
i want to download all the pages from 1 to the last page which is 4952
so the first URL is:
example.com/download.php?id=1
and the second is
example.com/download.php?id=4952
What would be the most efficient method to download the pages from 1 - 4952?
My current command is (it's working perfectly fine, the exact way i want it to):
wget -P /home/user/wget -S -nd --reject=.rar http://example.com/download.php?id=1
NOTE: The website has a troll and if you try to run the following command:
wget -P /home/user/wget -S -nd --reject=.rar --recursive --no-clobber --domains=example.com --no-parent http://example.com/download.php
it will download a 1000GB .rar file just to troll you!!!
Im new to linux, please be nice! just trying to learn!
Thank you!

Notepadd++ =
your URL + Column Editor = Massive list of all urls
Wget -I your_file_with_all_urls = Success!
thanks to Barmar

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