wget2

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An improved version of `wget` for downloading files from the web. Supports HTTP, HTTPS, and HTTP/2 protocols with enhanced performance. By default, `wget2` uses multiple threads for faster downloads.

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Options (8)

-p, --page-requisitesboolean

Download a single web page and all its resources (scripts, stylesheets, images, etc.)

Example: wget2 {{[-p|--page-requisites]}} {{[-k|--convert-links]}} {{https://example.com/somepage.html}}

-k, --convert-linksboolean

Download a single web page and all its resources (scripts, stylesheets, images, etc.)

Example: wget2 {{[-p|--page-requisites]}} {{[-k|--convert-links]}} {{https://example.com/somepage.html}}

-m, --mirrorboolean

Mirror a website, but do not ascend to the parent directory (does not download embedded page elements)

Example: wget2 {{[-m|--mirror]}} {{[-np|--no-parent]}} {{https://example.com/somepath/}}

--no-parentboolean

Mirror a website, but do not ascend to the parent directory (does not download embedded page elements)

Example: wget2 {{[-m|--mirror]}} {{[-np|--no-parent]}} {{https://example.com/somepath/}}

-t, --triesboolean

Limit the download speed and the number of connection retries

Example: wget2 --limit-rate {{300k}} {{[-t|--tries]}} {{100}} {{https://example.com/somepath/}}

-c, --continueboolean

Continue an incomplete download (behavior is consistent with `wget`)

Example: wget2 {{[-c|--continue]}} {{https://example.com}}

-P, --directory-prefixboolean

Download all URLs stored in a text file to a specific directory

Example: wget2 {{[-P|--directory-prefix]}} {{path/to/directory}} {{[-i|--input-file]}} {{URLs.txt}}

-i, --input-fileboolean

Download all URLs stored in a text file to a specific directory

Example: wget2 {{[-P|--directory-prefix]}} {{path/to/directory}} {{[-i|--input-file]}} {{URLs.txt}}

Examples (8)

Download the contents of a URL to a file using multiple threads (default behavior differs from `wget`)

wget2 https://example.com/resource

Limit the number of threads used for downloading (default is 5 threads)

wget2 --max-threads 10 https://example.com/resource

Download a single web page and all its resources (scripts, stylesheets, images, etc.)

wget2 [-p|--page-requisites] [-k|--convert-links] https://example.com/somepage.html

Mirror a website, but do not ascend to the parent directory (does not download embedded page elements)

wget2 [-m|--mirror] [-np|--no-parent] https://example.com/somepath/

Limit the download speed and the number of connection retries

wget2 --limit-rate 300k [-t|--tries] 100 https://example.com/somepath/

Continue an incomplete download (behavior is consistent with `wget`)

wget2 [-c|--continue] https://example.com

Download all URLs stored in a text file to a specific directory

wget2 [-P|--directory-prefix] path/to/directory [-i|--input-file] URLs.txt

Download a file from an HTTP server using Basic Auth (also works for HTTPS)

wget2 --user username --password password https://example.com

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