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Wget

About

A simple, reliable command-line downloader. Fetch single files, mirror whole websites and resume interrupted downloads.

Pricing

Free

Wget is the classic command-line downloader from the GNU project. It is ideal for pulling down files, downloading entire websites for offline reading, and scripting batch downloads.

Key Features

  • Download files from the terminal.
  • Recursive website mirroring with -r.
  • Resume downloads after interruptions with -c.
  • Retry and continue on flaky connections.
  • Limit bandwidth with --limit-rate.
  • Runs in the background for long jobs.

Pricing

Wget is free and open source under the GPL-3.0 license.

Getting Started

brew install wget
wget https://example.com/file.zip
wget -r -np https://example.com/docs/
wget -c https://example.com/big.iso

Use -c to resume a download that stopped halfway.

Install

Copy and run one of these commands locally to install Wget.

brew install wget

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