While Wget was inspired by features of some of the existing programs, it supported both HTTP and FTP and could be built using only the standard development tools found on every Unix system.Īt that time many Unix users struggled behind extremely slow university and dial-up Internet connections, leading to a growing need for a downloading agent that could deal with transient network failures without assistance from the human operator. Existing programs either supported FTP (such as NcFTP and dl) or were written in Perl, which was not yet ubiquitous. No single program could reliably use both HTTP and FTP to download files. Wget filled a gap in the inconsistent web-downloading software available in the mid-1990s. The name changed to Wget after the author became aware of an earlier Amiga program named GetURL, written by James Burton in AREXX. Wget descends from an earlier program named Geturl by the same author, the development of which commenced in late 1995. It has been used as the basis for graphical programs such as GWget for the GNOME Desktop. Since version 1.14 Wget has been able to save its output in the web archiving standard WARC format. Wget has been ported to Microsoft Windows, macOS, OpenVMS, HP-UX, AmigaOS, MorphOS and Solaris.
#WGET COMMAND FOR WINDOWS PORTABLE#
Written in portable C, Wget can be easily installed on any Unix-like system. It appeared in 1996, coinciding with the boom of popularity of the Web, causing its wide use among Unix users and distribution with most major Linux distributions. Its features include recursive download, conversion of links for offline viewing of local HTML, and support for proxies. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. Its name derives from " World Wide Web" and " get". GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl, also written as its package name, wget) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers.
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