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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 Window System (X11) support, etc.

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 Window System (X11) support, etc.

Tag usage

Use this tag for questions related to usage of the command line tool. This includes questions about parameters, return codes, error messages, etc.

If your question only concerns the specific protocol being used (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP), please use that tag instead. In most cases, it will be appropriate to use this tag along with a specific protocol tag. It is always a good idea to do some triage with different software programs to determine if your question is related to only GNU Wget, or if your question is relevant to different software programs as well.

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How to download files from command line in Windows like wget or curl

How can I download something from the web directly without Internet Explorer or Firefox opening Acrobat Reader/Quicktime/MS Word/whatever? I'm using Windows, so a Windows version of Wget would do.
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How do you redirect wget response to standard out?

I have a crontab that wgets a PHP page every five minutes (just to run some the PHP code), and I want to send the output of the request to standard out, while sending the normal wget output to /dev/null (or otherwise hide it). I couldn't find it in…
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How to wget a file with correct name when redirected?

So after some time of searching on Google and Super User (and scanning man pages) I was unable to find an answer to something that (I think) should be simple: If you go here: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2340 And try to download…
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Getting WGET to display a less verbose output

Is it possible to get WGET to only show download progress e.g. download bar, opposed to all of the connection info, as it does look a little ugly on the client side, is this possible to do?
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how to download dropbox files using wget command?

Seems I can only download dropbox files using explorer such as chrome and firefox. If I use wget to download, then I would get a file which is in html format. Why? For example you can open this link…
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Save a single web page (with background images) with Wget

I want to use Wget to save single web pages (not recursively, not whole sites) for reference. Much like Firefox's "Web Page, complete". My first problem is: I can't get Wget to save background images specified in the CSS. Even if it did save the…
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Wget/cURL alternative native to Windows?

Is there a Wget or cURL type command line utility native to Windows Vista? How does it work?
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How to find out the real download URL on download sites that use redirects

Let's say I want to download something with wget but the website that has the files I need redirects to a site which automatically chooses a mirror for me (and there's no static file URL provided). Downloading from such sites works with Firefox, but…
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Wget HEAD request?

I'd like to send the HTTP HEAD request using wget. Is it possible?
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How can I do a HTTP PUT with Wget?

I am trying to use Wget to access a RESTful interface, but I can not figure out how to do HTTP PUT with Wget. How can I do it? Or isn't it prossible?
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How to retry connections with wget?

I have a very unstable internet connection, and sometimes have to download files as large as 200 MB. The problem is that the speed frequently drops and sits at --, -K/s and the process remains alive. I thought just to send some KILL signals to the…
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How do I properly set wget to download only new files?

Let's say there's an url, let's call it http://www.some-url.com/folder/ This location has directory listing enabled, therefore I can do this: wget -r -np http://www.some-url.com/folder/ To download all its contents with all the files and subfolders…
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How can I make wget rename downloaded files to not include the query string?

I'm downloading a site with wget and a lot of the links have queries attached to them, so when I do this: wget -nv -c -r -H -A mp3 -nd http://url.to.old.podcasts.com/ I end up with a lot of files like…
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How to use wget to download HTTP error pages?

wget normally stops when it gets a HTTP error, e.g. 404 or so. Is there an option to make wget to download the page content regardless of the HTTP code?
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Make wget convert HTML links to relative after download if -k wasn't specified

The -k option (or --convert-link) will convert links in your web pages to relative after the download finishes, such as the man page says: After the download is complete, convert the links in the document to make them suitable for local…
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