wget | UNOFFICIAL fork of upstream wget repository

wget is a C library. wget has no bugs, it has a Strong Copyleft License and it has low support. However wget has 6 vulnerabilities. You can download it from GitHub.

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. 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. recursive downloading also works with ftp, where wget can retrieve a hierarchy of directories and files. 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