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 Screenshot of Wget running on Ubuntu. | |
| Original author(s) | Hrvoje Nikšić |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Giuseppe Scrivano, Tim Rühsen, Darshit Shah |
| Initial release | January 1996 |
| Stable release | 1.24.5[1] 
/ 10 March 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | FTP client / HTTP client |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later[a][2] |
| Website | www |
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 portable 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]
- ^ Darshit Shah (10 March 2024). "wget-1.24.5 released [stable]". Retrieved 22 March 2024.
- ^ "README file". Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- ^ 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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