GNU Wget

Introduction to 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:

Downloading GNU Wget

The source code for GNU Wget can be found on here or on our mirrors.
For more download options, see the FAQ.

Documentation

GNU Wget documentation can be found here.
For manuals of other GNU packages, please see www.gnu.org.

Additional Information

Currently GNU Wget2 is being developed.
Please help us if you can with testing, docs, organization, development, ... see you at 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.

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