wget2
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Wget2 works multi-threaded and uses many features to allow fast operation.
In many cases Wget2 downloads much faster than Wget1.x due to HTTP2, HTTP compression, parallel connections and use of If-Modified-Since HTTP header.
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- Command line interface
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Tim Rühsen Licensing
Open Source (LGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is wget2?
GNU Wget2 is the successor of GNU Wget, a file and recursive website downloader.
Designed and written from scratch it wraps around libwget, that provides the basic functions needed by a web client.
Wget2 works multi-threaded and uses many features to allow fast operation.
In many cases Wget2 downloads much faster than Wget1.x due to HTTP2, HTTP compression, parallel connections and use of If-Modified-Since HTTP header.
GNU Wget2 is licensed under GPLv3+.
Libwget is licensed under LGPLv3+.
Comments and Reviews
no issues with encoding, compatible with wget, recursive downloading