Wget
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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.
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| Original author(s) | Hrvoje Nikšić |
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| Developer(s) | Giuseppe Scrivano, Tim Rühsen, Darshit Shah |
| Initial release | January 1996; 28 years ago (1996-01) |
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| Repository | |
| Written in | C |
| Platform | Cross-platform |
| Type | FTP client / HTTP client |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later[lower-alpha 1][2] |
| Website | www |
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]