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Also known as GNU Wget

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

Instance of
FTP client
Developer
GNU Project
Image
Wget-screenshot.png
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copyright license
Q27016754
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
operating system
Linux
writable file format
Web ARChive
programmed in
Q15777
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
readable file format
Metalink
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