Wget
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP(S) and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.
Features
- Command line interface
- Website Downloader
- Batch processing
- Resume interrupted downloads
- Portable
Tags
- retrieve-files
Wget News & Activities
Recent News
- Danilo_Venom published news article about Ubuntu Server
Ubuntu Server 25.10 drops wget from default install and replaces it with wcurlUbuntu Server 25.10 will no longer include wget in its default installation, opting instead for wcu...
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What is Wget?
GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP(S) and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.
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Comments and Reviews
simple, terminal based, can do a lot. somewhat hard use if you are not a terminal user.
11 May 2023 wget-1.21. 4 (windows) released. "It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the background, after having logged off." recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages, or traverse the web like a WWW robot (Wget understands /robots.txt). Some antivirus tools recognise wget-1.21.4-win32.zip as potentially dangerous. The file that triggers warning is wget.exe.debug. I click the .exe file and everything disappears w/o warnings.
always there when you need it and for those who spend a lot of time behind a cli, it's essentially impossible not to use at some point. Quite simple, but gets the job done
Awesome details without any options
It's a powerful tool, working neatly.
A great explanation and how-to-download-a-whole-site can be found here: https://alvinalexander.com/linux-unix/how-to-make-offline-mirror-copy-website-with-wget/
Wget can actually manage a lot of things download managers (e.g. jDownloader, uGet) can do. Recursive search, wildcards, etc.
It's part of every Linux distribution and runs on Windows with either Cygwin of Services for Linux.