- A computer program that retrieves content from web servers. Wget’s name derives from “World Wide Web” and “get.” It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP, and features include recursive download, conversion of links for offline viewing of local HTML, as well as support for proxies. Wget was first released in 1996 and is part of the GNU Project. ← Wikipedia ↑ gnu.org/software/wget
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