About:
GNU Wget is a utility for noninteractive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies. It can follow HTML links, download many pages, and convert the links for local viewing. It can also mirror FTP hierarchies or only those files that have changed. Wget has been designed for robustness over slow network connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved.

Author:
Micah J. Cowan [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.66/10.00 (80 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
Tar/GZ:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz
Tar/BZ2:
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.bz2
Changelog:
http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/1.11/raw-file/1.11.2/NEWS
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://hg.addictivecode.org/
Bug tracker:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=wget
Mailing list archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/wget%40sunsite.dk/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		6 - Mature
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License v3
[Operating System]		MacOS X, Microsoft :: Windows, OS/2, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Internet :: File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Browsers, Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Site Management :: Link Checking

Dependencies: [change]
OpenSSL (Default branch) (recommended)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.11.2	30-Apr-2008	GNU General Public License v3

 Articles referencing this project

• Red Hat: Updated wget packages fix a security issue
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Wed, Nov 2nd 2005 09:26
  
• SuSE: New curl/wget packages fix remote code execution
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Mon, Oct 24th 2005 14:22
  
• Red Hat: Updated wget package fixes several security issues
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Fri, Sep 30th 2005 01:56
  
• Debian: New wget packages fix buffer overflow and directory traversal problems
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Thu, Dec 12th 2002 22:08
  
• Red Hat: Updated wget packages fix directory traversal bug
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Tue, Dec 10th 2002 08:09
  

 Comments

[»] Patch for better handling of '303 See Other'
by Ed Avis - Aug 16th 2003 04:19:42

A patch to allow wget to follow 303 See Other redirects (and at least print the destination URL when it does not).

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Ed Avis

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[»] The Perfect Program
by Plutoid - Jun 13th 2003 14:53:17

Simple, fast, and easy to use. I have been using this program for years and would like to show my gratitude. Thanks a ton, Jake@ plutoid.com

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[»] Tremendous!
by Christopher "CJayC" Jenkins - Nov 17th 2002 19:47:39

wget is a tremendously useful piece of software. I use it constantly to download large files over my slow connection, using the "-c" option to continue disconnected downloads. This is one piece of software which I truly love.

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http://cjayc.tk

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[»] Get a whole website including pictures, css, etc
by Ian Hyatt - Sep 13th 2001 17:00:53

This utility is awesome!!

You can get a whole website including pictures, css, etc and it will change all the links for you such that the site works on your local machine.

wget -m -p -k url

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[»] (wget) Great Utility
by Carl Nasal - Feb 20th 1999 21:14:47

For anyone that might be considering getting this utility, I would highly recommend it. I use it for all of my downloads of large files because it can do it in the background, continue if the download got interupted (if the server allows it), and can keep trying forever. (Also, the "web-suck" comes in handy when trying to download a site without an FTP login.) I consider it a must-have utility.

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[»] Re: (wget) Great Utility
by Ahmed El-Mahmoudy - Nov 19th 2004 12:56:13


> recommend it. I use it for all of my

> downloads of large files because it can

Exactly how large u mean ?
I just tried to download a 4.4 GB ISO image from
an FTP site (I was using wget-1.9), I got this:
"Length: 382,015,488 (unauthoritative)"
ie, it says that the length of the file it is
downloading is about 380 MB not 4.4 GB !



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[»] Re: (wget) Great Utility
by James Gregory - May 30th 2005 07:26:01


>

> Exactly how large u mean ?

> I just tried to download a 4.4 GB ISO

> image from

> an FTP site (I was using wget-1.9), I

> got this:

> "Length: 382,015,488 (unauthoritative)"

> ie, it says that the length of the file

> it is

> downloading is about 380 MB not 4.4 GB

> !

>

>

It doesn't like files of more than 2GB.

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[»] Re: (wget) Great Utility
by Hrvoje Niksic - Jun 14th 2005 09:01:43


> It doesn't like files of more than 2GB.


Note that Wget 1.10 does support files larger than 2GB.


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