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A GNU non-interactive (can be called from scripts, cron jobs , terminals without the X-Windows support, etc.) network downloader that retrieves content from web servers. The name is derived from World Wide Web and get.

GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl) is a program that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get, connotative of its primary function. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, the most popular TCP/IP-based protocols used for web browsing.

WGet supports downloading both separate pages and the complete sites (recursive retrieval), also respects robots.txt. It can also retry if the server fails to respond.

Some of the features include: GNU wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP, including:

Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE

  • NLS-based message files for many different languages
  • Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally
  • Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows
  • Supports HTTP proxies
  • Supports HTTP cookies
  • Supports persistent HTTP connections
  • Unattended / background operation
  • Uses local file timestamps to determine whether documents need to be re-downloaded when mirroring
  • GNU Wget is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Examples

Basic usage:

$ wget https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Tux.svg

Downloading image in the background, saving it in logfile.txt and try to download it up to 45 times.

$ wget -t 45 -o logfile.txt https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Tux.svg &

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wget: unable to resolve host address

I'am getting an error with the following command: > wget sources.buildroot.net --2017-01-04 09:22:20-- http://sources.buildroot.net/ Resolving sources.buildroot.net (sources.buildroot.net)... failed: Name or service not known. wget: unable to…
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How can I download a video file (with dynamically changing link) directly to my server?

Hy, my question is about transferring videos directly to my web-server so that I don't have to upload them to the server (as it takes time). I am using WGET tool via ssh on server for this task. WGET is downloading videos which has links (static)…
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Capricious Json parsing errors in Java

I have a Java server app with an endpoint that parses Json. I make requests with Wget like this, wget --header="Content-Type: application/json" --post-file=somefile.json %SERVER_URL% The file is parsed like this, InputStream in =…
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Wget Macro for downloading multiple URLS?

(NOTE: You need at least 10 reputation to post more than 2 links. I had to remove the http and urls, but it's still understandable i hope!) Hello! I am trying to Wget an entire website for personal educational use. Here's what the URL looks like:…
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centos6.8 wget error: Proxy Authentication Required

I got following error message when I tried to connect to web site through proxy with wget on centos 6.8. ERROR wget http://www.yahoo.co.jp --2016-12-16 14:47:04 http://www.yahoo.co.jp Connecting to 172.30.10.124:8080... connected. Proxy request…
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windows wget not downloading file but does in a browser

I'm trying to download a file using wget (the windows command line port) and I am getting this error.. --2016-12-06 12:36:11-- …
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How to fix my terminal system wide proxy settings set by Fiddler?

In order to analyze HTTP package, I install Fiddler and Mono. I have configured shadowsocks and proxychains, and it works well. But after I installed Fiddler, all doesn't work. such as curl wget and so on. All it connects to localhost:8888 and it…
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Is it possible to download a low resolution version of a high resolution image from any URL?

So, I was just doing wget of an image. And while it was downloading, I aborted the process and I was able to see half of the image. So, I was thinking maybe we could get the server into thinking that I’ve already downloaded most part of image.…
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URL-forwarding to download a file: wget only downloads the index.html

From time to time I have to download a specific file from a website with wget. The URL is very long, so I created a free .tk-domain that forwards to the file. If I use my new .tk-URL in my browser, it downloads the file as I want it but on my VPS on…
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Getting 401 authentication error with Python Requests, wget functions correctly

I'm trying to download a zip file from a provider, using wget works fine: wget -c --http-user=MY_UN --http-password=MY_PW "https://datapool.asf.alaska.edu/GRD_MD/SA/S1A_EW_GRDM_1SDH_20151003T040339_20151003T040351_007983_00B2A6_7377.zip" However…
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Using Nexus REST API to retrieve artifacts with different classifier

I want to download the artifacts of a project from command line with wget. The project has artifacts with different classifiers. But the classifier is not always equal and sometimes a project does not have any artifacts with classifer. The only one…
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Download a web page using wget and define a new filename

I need to write a script in bash using wget which download a web page which has been passed to an argument and then the script should put the extracted page in a new file.html and then also extract all the tags of the web page in a second file and…
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How to download files from my list with wget and ftp

I need to download only defined files with wget and ftp. For example: 1.I retrieve all files using: echo ls -R | ftp ftp://user:password@host > ./list.txt 2.Then I will parse the result and get a list with absolute paths for each…
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Can wget be instructed to follow only links with specific text?

I have roughly 4000 pages to download, each of which has a single link to the next page. This link always has the same text (and name attribute). I've have read the documentation for wget pretty thoroughly, and there are switches to download only…
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download.file in R using wget

The webpage I am trying to access downloads an attachment but header status is always 500 which I have checked through postman. I am using download.file with wget method in R to download that file but it stops and doesn't download since the header…
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