wget for Windows

[Vortex]

Wget, the non-interactive commandline tool is used for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols.,

Latest version is 1.11.4, compiled with MS Visual C++ and linked with OpenSSL 0.9.8k.

http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
EDIT: the above link no longer works
(a Web search is advised), or look here:
https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

An example of usage, download the Masm32 package :

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wget http://www.oby.ro/masm32/masm32v11r.zip

[Gunther]

Erol,

good hint and a good link.  :t Thank you.

Gunther

[hutch--]

Funny enough I have had a copy of wget for at least the last 10 years. Long ago I picked up a full set of Unix utilities which I think are GNU and have been using them for years.

[Vortex]

Hi Hutch,

This version of wget has an advantage as it does not depend on any GNU dll. It's only one executable file.

[Gunther]

This version of wget has an advantage as it does not depend on any GNU dll. It's only one executable file.

that's good news. I'll give it a try.

Gunther

[hutch--]

Erol,

The GNU utilities I have date from back about 2003 and they don't use a DLL at all. I saw the later ones but prefer the old ones I have.

[bomz]

http://forum.ru-board.com/topic.cgi?forum=62&topic=23213&start=0&limit=1&m=2#1
console wget and curl exist for windows, and many more simple download console utilities

[Magnum]

I understand that wget downloads files, but don't you still have to still know where the file is ?

I guess there is some way I haven't thought of to use it.

Andy

[Vortex]

Hi Magnum,

It's easy. Here is an example. Visit the Masm32 download page. Right click the US Site 1 link and copy the address pointing the zip file. Go to the command line prompt and type :

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wget http://website.assemblercode.com/masm32/masm32v11r.zip

[Magnum]

I realize that, but it can be done faster using my browser.

[Gunther]

Andy,

I realize that, but it can be done faster using my browser.

your prefered browser and wget are using the same protocol in that case (FTP). There shouldn't be a difference.

Gunther

[Vortex]

Hi Magnum,

wget is originally a UNIX \ Linux command-line tool. It's ported to Windows. Using wget, you can also download all the files with the same extension :

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wget -r -nd -np --exclude-directories=/archive/trans -A.zip http://website.net/tools

Exluding the /archive/trans directory, wget will retrieve the zip files from website.net/tools

[dedndave]

a nice feature would be to resume a download after a broken connection   

[Vortex]

Hi Dave,

Here is an article to resume broken download :

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wget-resume-broken-download.html

[Magnum]

Gunther

I know that, but using wget, you have to often have know ahead of time what you want to download.

Dave,

It keeps trying if it's supported.

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.