WGET on Windows

A small intro , WGET

Most of us , someway or other came across the WGET command . this is available in Ubuntu or Mac OS .

Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as retrieval through HTTP proxies.

Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background, while the user is not logged on. This allows you to start a retrieval and disconnect from the system, letting Wget finish the work. By contrast, most of the Web browsers require constant user's presence, which can be a great hindrance when transferring a lot of data.

Wget can follow links in HTML, XHTML, and CSS pages, to create local versions of remote web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original site. This is sometimes referred to as "recursive downloading." While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard (robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in downloaded files to point at the local files, for offline viewing.

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.

Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load, speed up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls. Wget uses the passive FTP downloading by default, active FTP being an option.

Wget supports IP version 6, the next generation of IP. IPv6 is autodetected at compile-time, and can be disabled at either build or run time. Binaries built with IPv6 support work well in both IPv4-only and dual family environments.

Wget has been ported to the Amiga, BeOS, OS/2, MVS, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, and VMS.

Wget is distributed under the GNU General Public License.

Wget 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.

but this is not inbuilt in windows OS , so we need set-up this windows .

we will make it available from anywhere in the system , just like any other win cmd command .

how to make use of it in Windows

step 1 : download any .exe or zip file from the link (WGET)

step 2 : copy the .exe file to the C:\Windows\System32

C:\Windows\System32

step 3 : then verify , with an link or file as below

in next doc , will discuss curl !