GNU Wget

GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS, the most widely used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

GNU Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including:

  • Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE
  • Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories
  • 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.

Downloading GNU Wget

The source code for GNU Wget can be found on the main GNU download server or (better) on a GNU mirror near you.
For more download options, see the FAQ.

Documentation

GNU Wget documentation is available online, as are the manuals of other GNU packages.

Additional Information

Currently GNU Wget2 is being developed.
Please help us if you can with testing, docs, organization, development, etc. See you at the Wget2 collaboration site.

Maintainer

GNU Wget is currently being maintained by Tim Rühsen, Darshit Shah and Giuseppe Scrivano.
The original author of GNU Wget is Hrvoje Nikšić.
Please do not directly contact either of these individuals with bug reports, or requests for help with Wget: that is what the mailing list is for; please use it instead.

Donators

We thank the TYPO3 & Magento partner AOE media for donating to the Wget project.