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GNU Wget
======== (Temporary) home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/
========
(Temporary) Web home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/
GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the World
Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet
protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the
background, after having logged off.
GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
retrieval through HTTP proxies.
The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is
supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home
pages, or traverse a site like a WWW robot (Wget understands
/robots.txt).
It can follow links in HTML pages and 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 HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.
Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections, keeping
getting the document until it is fully retrieved. Re-getting files
from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that
support it. Matching of wildcards and recursive mirroring of
directories are available when retrieving via FTP. Both HTTP and FTP
retrievals can be time-stamped, thus Wget can see if the remote file
has changed since last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new
version if it has.
Recursive downloading also works with FTP, where Wget can retrieves a
hierarchy of directories and files.
Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load, speed
up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls. If you are behind a
firewall that requires the use of a socks style gateway, you can get
the socks library and compile wget with support for socks.
With both HTTP and FTP, Wget can check whether a remote file has
changed on the server since the previous run, and only download the
newer files.
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.
If you are behind a firewall that requires the use of a socks style
gateway, you can get the socks library and compile wget with support
for socks.
Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line
options, or via initialization file .wgetrc. Wget allows you to
install a global startup file (/usr/local/etc/wgetrc by default) for
site settings.
Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many
other similar utilities, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no
Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many of
its predecessors, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no
additional software (like perl). As Wget uses the GNU Autoconf, it is
easily built on and ported to other Unix's. Installation procedure is
described in the INSTALL file.
Like all GNU utilities, the latest version of Wget can be found at the
master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. For example,
Wget 1.7.1 is at:
Wget 1.8 is available at:
<URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.7.1.tar.gz>.
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.8.tar.gz
Please report bugs in Wget to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
Wget has a mailing list at <wget@sunsite.dk>. To subscribe, mail to
<wget-subscribe@sunsite.dk>. Wget's home page is temporarily at
<URL:http://wget.sunsite.dk/>. It is being migrated to
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>, where will be its permanent
home.
<http://wget.sunsite.dk/>. It is being migrated to
<http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>, where will be its permanent home.
MAINTAINERS: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>