Wget Alternatives

One of the most popular alternatives to Wget is aria2, which is free and open source. Other popular alternatives are cURL, Plexo, uGet and HTTPie for Terminal. There's no shortage of Download Managers like Wget, with more than 25 alternatives for Linux, Windows, Mac, Android and self-hosting.

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  1. KGet icon
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    KGet is a versatile and user-friendly download manager for KDE. By default it is the download manager used for Konqueror, but can also be used with Mozilla Firefox. KGet is part of the KDE Network package and can download files from FTP, HTTP(S) and BitTorrent sources.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
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  2. axel icon
     27 likes

    Axel tries to accelerate HTTP/FTP downloading process by using multiple connections for one file. It can use multiple mirrors for a download. Axel has no dependencies and is lightweight, so it might be useful as a wget clone on byte-critical systems.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. kurly icon
     2 likes

    kurly is a tool to transfer data from a HTTP(S) server, similar to curl.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. AriaNg icon
     6 likes

    AriaNg is a modern web frontend making aria2 easier to use.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Zeno is a web crawler designed to operate wide crawls or to simply archive one web page. Zeno's key concepts are: portability, performance, simplicity. With an emphasis on performance.

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    • Linux
    • Windows
    • Mac
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  6. Aria2 Next icon
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    aria2 is remarkable open source software. For over a decade it has been one of the most capable download engines available, trusted by countless tools and users worldwide.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
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  7. Hurl icon
     7 likes

    Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format. It can capture values, evaluate queries on headers and body response. It is very versatile: it can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions.

    47 Hurl alternatives

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  8. AWGG icon
     3 likes

    AWGG or Advanced Wget GUI is a download or frontend manager of the most popular download engines such as wget, aria2, curl, youtube-dl and axel...

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    • Discontinued

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. aget icon
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    Aget is a multithreaded HTTP -for now- download accelerator. Everybody knows about the famous Flashget for Win32. This program is a starting point of a very useful project like Flashget. The aim is to provide as much functionality as we can.

    Tests show that Aget is successfull i.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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  10.  Like

    A lightweight, VirusTotal -enabled command-line downloader. Knowing of no cURL -like tools that directly leverage the native Windows API, I thought it would be fun to make my own, and throw in quick automatic...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  11. VisualWget icon
     9 likes

    VisualWget is a download manager that use Wget as a core retriever to retrieve files from the web. You can think of VisualWget as a GUI front-end for Wget that give you all of Wget functionalities (e.g.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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