= The Wget Wgiki =

This is the wiki for GNU Wget, a [[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html|free software]] package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc.

GNU Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including:

 * Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE
 * Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories
 * NLS-based message files for many different languages
 * Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally
 * Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows
 * Supports HTTP proxies
 * Supports HTTP cookies
 * Supports persistent HTTP connections
 * Unattended / background operation
 * Uses local file timestamps to determine whether documents need to be re-downloaded when mirroring

GNU Wget is distributed under the [[http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html|GNU General Public License]].

[[FrequentlyAskedQuestions#download|Information on downloading GNU Wget]].

At the moment, there's [[https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=wget&func=browse&set=custom&msort=1&custom_sb1%5b%5d=0&custom_sb2%5b%5d=0&resolution_id%5b%5d=0&priority%5b%5d=0&severity%5b%5d=0&status_id%5b%5d=1&plan_release_id%5b%5d=0&details%5b%5d=&summary%5b%5d=&advsrch=1&msort=1&chunksz=50&spamscore=5&report_id=189&sumORdet=0&morder=custom_sb2%3E,priority%3E&sumOrdet=0&order=priority|tons of work]] to do, and almost no one to do it, as despite a very large user base, there are very few developers helping to improve Wget. [[HelpingWithWget|Volunteers welcome]]!


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There is a [[FrequentlyAskedQuestions|FAQ]], and a preliminary list of FeatureSpecifications that need writing.

Other interesting pages:

 * Information on getting the latest source code via RepositoryAccess
 * Information on Wget's MailingLists
 * Information on how to use the BugTracker
 * HelpingWithWget

This ''is'' a wiki (powered by MoinMoin), so of course you can pretty much edit anything here.

= News =

 * 2009-09-22

 GNU Wget 1.12 is released. [[FrequentlyAskedQuestions#download|See here]] for information about how to get it. The final NEWS file is at http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/mainline/file/1.12/NEWS.

 * 2008-10-31

 The primary mailing list for discussing GNU Wget has ''moved''. The mailing lists {{{wget@sunsite.dk}}} and {{{wget-patches@sunsite.dk}}} will not be used any longer; please use {{{bug-wget@gnu.org}}} instead. Details at MailingLists.

 * 2008-06-29

 GNU Wget 1.11.4 is released. [[FrequentlyAskedQuestions#download|See here]] for information about how to get it. The final NEWS file is at http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/1.11/file/1.11.4/NEWS.

 * 2008-05-28

 GNU Wget 1.11.3 is now available! [[FrequentlyAskedQuestions#download|See here]] for information about how to get it. The final NEWS file is at http://hg.addictivecode.org/wget/1.11/file/1.11.3/NEWS.


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A patch to implement Firefox 3.x style cookie file loading/saving is here: [[attachment:wget-firefox3-cookie.patch]]