14 Facts About Wget

GNU Wget is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers.

Wget has been ported to Microsoft Windows, macOS, OpenVMS, HP-UX, AmigaOS, MorphOS and Solaris.

Wget descends from an earlier program named Geturl by the same author, the development of which commenced in late 1995.

Wget filled a gap in the inconsistent web-downloading software available in the mid-1990s.

Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network connections.

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When downloading recursively over either HTTP or FTP, Wget can be instructed to inspect the timestamps of local and remote files, and download only the remote files newer than the corresponding local ones.

Wget is non-interactive in the sense that, once started, it does not require user interaction and does not need to control a TTY, being able to log its progress to a separate file for later inspection.

GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Niksic with contributions by many other people, including Dan Harkless, Ian Abbott, and Mauro Tortonesi.

Copyright to Wget belongs to the Free Software Foundation, whose policy is to require copyright assignments for all non-trivial contributions to GNU software.

GNU Wget is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, with a special exception that allows distribution of binaries linked against the OpenSSL library.

Wget is developed in an open fashion, most of the design decisions typically being discussed on the public mailing list followed by users and developers.

Patches intended for inclusion in Wget are submitted to the mailing list where they are reviewed by the maintainers.

Wget makes an appearance in the 2010 Columbia Pictures motion picture release, The Social Network.

GWget is a free software graphical user interface for Wget.