Wget

Wget
Original author(s)Hrvoje Nikšić
Developer(s)Giuseppe Scrivano, Tim Rühsen, Darshit Shah
Initial releaseJanuary 1996; 28 years ago (1996-01)
Stable release
1.24.5[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 10 March 2024
Repository
Written inC
PlatformCross-platform
TypeFTP client / HTTP client
LicenseGPL-3.0-or-later[a][2]
Websitewww.gnu.org/software/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". 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.[3]

  1. ^ Darshit Shah (10 March 2024). "wget-1.24.5 released [stable]". Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  2. ^ "README file". Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  3. ^ Scrivano, Giuseppe (6 August 2012). "GNU wget 1.14 released". GNU wget 1.14 released. Free Software Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 25 February 2016.


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