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Wget

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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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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Country of Origin

  • US flagUnited States

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • BSD
4.6 / 5 Avg rating (10)
428likes
7comments
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Features

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  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Website Downloader
  3.  Batch processing
  4.  Resume interrupted downloads
  5.  Portable

 Tags

  • retrieve-files

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  • Bobby_Reggine and Taramays liked Wget
    19 days ago
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    superstickynotemealt added Wget as alternative to Website Watchman
    about 2 months ago
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    POX added Wget as alternative to DloadBox
    3 months ago
  • mckabsngdfty05, AuthoritativeProtocol, BIGLINUX and kisslike liked Wget
    3 months ago
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Wget information

  • Developed by

    US flagGNU Project
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.6
  • Alternatives

    24 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 7 comments and reviews about Wget, and it has gotten 428 likes

Wget was added to AlternativeTo by Xure on Oct 19, 2009 and this page was last updated Sep 26, 2023. Wget is sometimes referred to as GNU Wget.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Userb
Aug 6, 2020
1

simple, terminal based, can do a lot. somewhat hard use if you are not a terminal user.

TBayAreaPat
Aug 29, 2023
0

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.

Ryan Fader
Oct 13, 2022
0

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

ab1
May 6, 2022
0

Awesome details without any options

Alexander Klar
Mar 9, 2021
0

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/

dadoomer
Mar 29, 2020
0

Wget can actually manage a lot of things download managers (e.g. jDownloader, uGet) can do. Recursive search, wildcards, etc.

Fred Ferble
Sep 9, 2019
0

It's part of every Linux distribution and runs on Windows with either Cygwin of Services for Linux.

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.