Wget
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GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl, also written as its package name, wget) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project. Its name derives from "World Wide Web" and "get", a HTTP request method. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Wget2
- Software.screenshot
- File:Wget 1.13.4.png
- Software.caption
- Screenshot of Wget running on Ubuntu.
- Software.author
- Hrvoje Nikšić
- Software.developer
- Giuseppe Scrivano, Tim Rühsen
- Software.platform
- Cross-platform
- Software.programming language
- C
- Software.genre
- FTP client / HTTP client
- Software.license
- GPL-3.0-or-later
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.gnu.org/software/wget
- Image
- Wget-screenshot.png
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- software version identifier
- 2.2.1
- Commons category
- GNU Wget
- source code repository URL
- git.savannah.gnu.org/git/wget.git
- inception
- 1996-01-01
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.libera.chat/wget
- publication date
- 1996-00-00
- edition/version
- GNU Wget édition/version 1
- mailing list archive URL
- lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget
- described at URL
- marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/tool-or-service/NreGGj
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23 sectionsContents
- History
- Features
- Robustness
- Recursive download
- Non-interactiveness
- Portability
- Other features
- Authors and copyright
- License
- Development
- Source contribution
- Release
- Popular references
- Notable releases
- Wget2
- Related works
- GWget
- Cliget
- Clones
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl, also written as its package name, wget) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers. It is part of the GNU Project. Its name derives from "World Wide Web" and "get", a HTTP request method. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.
Its features include recursive download, conversion of links for offline viewing of local HTML, and support for proxies. It appeared in 1996, coinciding with the boom of popularity of the Web, causing its wide use among Unix users and distribution with most major Linux distributions. Wget is written in C, and can be easily installed on any Unix-like system. Wget has been ported to Microsoft Windows, macOS, OpenVMS, HP-UX, AmigaOS, MorphOS, and Solaris. Since version 1.14, Wget has been able to save its output in the web archiving standard WARC format.