GNU Wget - Revision history

Prwheatley at 15:56, 26 November 2021

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JvdNat at 14:56, 22 April 2021

2021-04-22T14:56:39Z

Chlara: Formatting

2016-04-04T15:39:09Z

Formatting

Nullhandle at 21:50, 26 February 2016

2016-02-26T21:50:09Z

Danielle plumer: Added information about features, license, platforms & installation, documentation, and user experiences. Fixed Ohloh ID.

2014-10-01T03:54:09Z

Added information about features, license, platforms & installation, documentation, and user experiences. Fixed Ohloh ID.

Danielle plumer at 02:19, 1 October 2014

2014-10-01T02:19:42Z

Danielle plumer at 02:06, 1 October 2014

2014-10-01T02:06:20Z

Danielle plumer at 01:48, 1 October 2014

2014-10-01T01:48:22Z

Danielle plumer at 00:58, 1 October 2014

2014-10-01T00:58:14Z

Danielle plumer at 00:31, 1 October 2014

2014-10-01T00:31:43Z

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 |license=GNU General Public License
 |platforms=Unix, Linux, Windows, Macintosh
-|function=Web Crawl
+|function=Web Capture
 |content=Web
 }}

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-{{Infobox_tool
+{{Infobox tool
 |image=Gnu2.png
 |homepage=http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
 |license=GNU General Public License
 |platforms=Unix, Linux, Windows, Macintosh
 }}
 = Description =
 GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP,  HTTPS and FTP,  the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool,  so it may easily be called from scripts,  cron jobs,  terminals without X-Windows support,  etc.
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 = Development Activity =

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 GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP,  HTTPS and FTP,  the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool,  so it may easily be called from scripts,  cron jobs,  terminals without X-Windows support,  etc.
-== Features ==
+=== Features ===
 From the Wget manual:
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 As of version 1.14, Wget supports WARC output. See http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_output for details of the development of this feature.
-== Platform ==
+=== Platform ===
 GNU Wget can be installed on Unix-like systems (UNIX, Linux), Mac OS, and Windows computers.
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 * Windows: packages for later versions of Wget compiled for Windows are available at http://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/.
-==Documentation==
+===Documentation===
 The user manual is available at http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html. The manual is also available via man wget in Unix-like systems.

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 <!-- Delete the Categories that do not apply -->
 [[Category:Web Crawl]]
+[[Category:Web]]
 = Description =

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 * Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background, while the user is not logged on. This allows you to start a retrieval and disconnect from the system, letting Wget finish the work. By contrast, most of the Web browsers require constant user’s presence, which can be a great hindrance when transferring a lot of data.
-* Wget can follow links in HTML, XHTML, and CSS pages, to create local versions of remote web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original site. This is sometimes referred to as “recursive downloading.” While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard (/robots.txt). * * Wget can be instructed to convert the links in downloaded files to point at the local files, for offline viewing.
+* Wget can follow links in HTML, XHTML, and CSS pages, to create local versions of remote web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original site. This is sometimes referred to as “recursive downloading.” While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard (/robots.txt).  Wget can be instructed to convert the links in downloaded files to point at the local files, for offline viewing.
 * File name wildcard matching and recursive mirroring of directories are available when retrieving via FTP. Wget can read the time-stamp information given by both HTTP and FTP servers, and store it locally. Thus Wget can see if the remote file has changed since last retrieval, and automatically retrieve the new version if it has. This makes Wget suitable for mirroring of FTP sites, as well as home pages.
 * Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the server supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the download from where it left off.
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 * Unix-like systems: Most package managers include Wget, but they may not include the latest version. To get a later version with support for WARC, for example, Linux and UNIX users should compile the latest version of the source code following the instructions at http://wget.addictivecode.org/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#How_do_I_compile_Wget.3F.
-* Macintosh: The default Mac OS does not include Wget. Source code can be compiled for Mac OS X or users can install an alternative package manager such as Homebrew (it is unknown which version of Wget Homebrew installs). See http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/install-and-configure-wget-on-os-x/ for instructions on how to install from source.
+* Macintosh: The default Mac OS does not include Wget. Source code can be compiled for Mac OS X or users can install an alternative package manager such as Homebrew (Homebrew installs the latest version by default). See http://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/install-and-configure-wget-on-os-x/ for instructions on how to install from source.
 * Windows: packages for later versions of Wget compiled for Windows are available at http://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/.

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 As of version 1.14, Wget supports WARC output. See http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_output for details of the development of this feature.
 ==Documentation==
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 Additional documentation, including an FAQ, is available on the Wget wiki, http://wget.addictivecode.org/Wget.
 = User Experiences =