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GNU Wget2 - Introduction

GNU Wget2 is the successor of GNU Wget, a file and recursive website downloader.

Designed and written from scratch it wraps around libwget, that provides the basic functions needed by a web client.

Wget2 works multi-threaded and uses many features to allow fast operation.

In many cases Wget2 downloads much faster than Wget1.x due to HTTP2, HTTP compression, parallel connections and use of If-Modified-Since HTTP header.

GNU Wget2 is licensed under GPLv3+.

Libwget is licensed under LGPLv3+.

Features

A non-exhaustive list of features

• Support for HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2.0 protocol
• brotli decompression support (Accept-Encoding: br)
• zstandard decompression support, RFC8478 (Accept-Encoding: zstd)
• lzip decompression support, (Accept-Encoding: lzip)
• HPKP - HTTP Public Key Pinning (RFC7469) with persistent database
• TCP Fast Open for plain text and for HTTPS
• TLS Session Resumption including persistent session data cache
• TLS False Start (with GnuTLS >= 3.5.0)
• HTTP2 support via nghttp2 and GnuTLS ALPN including streaming/pipelining
• OCSP stapling + OCSP server querying as a fallback (experimental, needs GnuTLS >= 3.3.11)
• Use libpsl for cookie domain checking (using Public Suffix List)
• Support link conversion (-k/--convert-links and -K/--backup-converted)
• Support for RFC 6266 compliant Content-Disposition
• RFC 6797 HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security)
• Support for bzip2 Content-Encoding / Accept-Encoding compression type
• New Year 2014 gimmick: added support for XZ Content-Encoding / Accept-Encoding compression type
• Character encoding of input files may be specified despite from local and remote encoding (--input-encoding)
• Support scanning RSS 2.0 feeds from local files (--force-rss -i <filename>)
• Support scanning RSS 2.0 feeds.
• Support scanning Atom 1.0 feeds from local files (--force-atom -i <filename>)
• Support scanning Atom 1.0 feeds.
• Support scanning URLs from local Sitemap XML file (--force-sitemap -i <filename>)
• Support scanning sitemap files given in robots.txt (Sitemap XML, gzipped Sitemap XML, plain text) including sitemap index files.
• Support arbitrary number of proxies for parallel downloads
• Multithreaded download of single files (option --chunk-size)
• Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (compile-selectable IDNA2008 or IDNA2003)
• ICEcast / SHOUTcast support via library (see examples/getstream.c)
• respect /robots.txt "Robot Exclusion Standard" and <META name="robots" ...>
• new option --secure-protocol=PFS to have TLS only plus forcing Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS)
• IDN support for international domains
• autotools support
• proxy support
• cookies (session/non-session), detection of supercookies via Mozilla Public Suffix List (use the new option --cookie-suffixes <filename>, better: put it into ~/.wgetrc)
• recursive download of websites with or without spanning hosts
• download of single web pages / resources
• zlib/gzip compressed HTTP/HTTPS downloads (gzip, deflate)
• number of parallel download threads is adjustable
• include directive for config files (wildcards allowed)
• support for keep-alive connections
• included CSS, HTML, XML parser needed for recursive downloads
• gettext support
• HTTPS via libgnutls (and basic WolfSSL support)
• support for Metalink RFC 6249 (Metalink/HTTP: Mirrors and Hashes)
• support for Metalink RFC 5854 (Metalink Download Description Format / .meta4 files)
• support for Metalink 3
• Metalink checksumming via libgnutls
• DNS lookup cache
• IPv4 and IPv6 support
• built and tested on Linux, OSX, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Solaris, Windows

Links

Online Docs

Mailing List

Bug Tracker

Development

Code Coverage

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Build Requirements

The following packages are needed to build the software

• autotools (autoconf, autogen, automake, autopoint, libtool)
• python (recommended for faster bootstrap)
• rsync
• tar
• makeinfo (part of texinfo)
• pkg-config >= 0.28 (recommended)
• doxygen (for creating the documentation)
• pandoc (for creating the wget2 man page)
• gettext >= 0.18.2
• libiconv (needed for IRI and IDN support)
• libz >= 1.2.3 (the distribution may call the package zlib*, eg. zlib1g on Debian)
• liblzma >= 5.1.1alpha (optional, if you want HTTP lzma decompression)
• libbz2 >= 1.0.6 (optional, if you want HTTP bzip2 decompression)
• libbrotlidec/libbrotli >= 1.0.0 (optional, if you want HTTP brotli decompression)
• libzstd >= 1.3.0 (optional, if you want HTTP zstd decompression)
• libgnutls (3.3, 3.5 or 3.6)
• libidn2 >= 0.14 (libidn >= 1.25 if you don't have libidn2)
• flex >= 2.5.35
• libpsl >= 0.5.0
• libnghttp2 >= 1.3.0 (optional, if you want HTTP/2 support)
• libmicrohttpd >= 0.9.51 (optional, if you want to run the test suite)
• lzip (optional, if you want to build distribution tarballs)
• lcov (optional, for coverage reports)
• libgpgme >= 0.4.2 (optional, for automatic signature verification)
• libpcre | libpcre2 (optional, for filtering by PCRE|PCRE2 regex)
• libhsts (optional, to support HSTS preload lists)
• libwolfssl (optional, to support WolfSSL instead of GnuTLS)

The versions are recommended, but older versions may also work.

Downloading and building from tarball

	wget https://gnuwget.gitlab.io/wget2/wget2-latest.tar.gz
	tar xf wget2-latest.tar.gz
	cd wget2-*
	./configure
	make
	make check
	sudo make install

Building from git

Download project and prepare sources with

	git clone https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2.git
	cd wget2
	./bootstrap
	# on shell failure try 'bash ./bootstrap'

Build Wget2 with

	./configure
	make

In Haiku build Wget2 with

    setarch x86
    ./configure --prefix=/boot/home/config/non-packaged
    rm /boot/home/config/non-packaged/wget2 && mv /boot/home/config/non-packaged/wget2_noinstall /boot/home/config/non-packaged/wget2

Test the functionality

	make check

Install Wget2 and libwget

	sudo make install (or su -c "make install")

License

Copyright (C) 2015-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.