Wget

wget is a free Gestionnaire of remote loading . It is resulting from the project GNU, it allows the advanced remote loading of files on networks and Internet. For example, it makes it possible to create mirrors of sites, or to carry out recursive remote loadings. Its name comes from World Wide Web and GET which is the name of the order used in the protocol HTTP to recover a file. It is able to communicate with the protocol HTTP E ftp.

He is written in C in an extremely portable style. It is a program in line of order used mainly on the systems Unix. Graphic frontals such as gwget and of the versions for Windows also exist

wget is not interactive, which means that it can work in background, without the user not being identified on his machine. On the contrary, the majority of the navigators Web require the constant presence of the user, which can be very awkward during important transfers of data.

When it creates a mirror or that it “downloads recursively”, wget respects the protocol Robots.txt . wget can be parameterized to convert into room the bonds of the files HTML downloaded so that they are consultable out-line.

The generic characters of file name and the recursive images mirrors of repertory are available during a transfer via ftp. wget can read the temporal stamp provided by waiters HTTP and waiters ftp, and record it locally. wget can thus check if a distant file were modified since last research, and possibly download the new version automatically. wget is thus a suitable tool to create mirrors of sites ftp, or banner pages.

wget was conceived to be robust if connection network is slow or unstable; if a remote loading fails because of a problem of network, it goes réessayer until all the file is recovered, while beginning again where it had stopped.

wget supports the waiters proxy, which can reduce the load of the network, accelerate the remote loading and allow an access behind a Pare-feu

wget did not manage the files of more than 2 gigaoctets before the version 1.10; certain people thus turned to alternatives, such as Ncftpget or CURL.

Certain portions of this article are based on Wget documentation

External bonds

Official site
Page on gnu.org (slightly older)

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