GNU Wget2

The wget2 utility is a recursive, multi-threaded HTTP(S) downloader. It is built around libwget.

Wget2 is partially compatible with GNU Wget but offers new features and options while some of the fancier options have been dropped resp. have not been ported yet.

wget2 manual

GNU libwget

Libwget offers an API for easy building of network applications.

API overview

Contact / Community

• Project
• Mailing List
• Bug Tracker

Build requirements

The following packages are needed to build the Wget2 project:

• autotools (autoconf, autogen, automake, autopoint, libtool)
• pkg-config >= 0.28 (recommended)
• doxygen (for creating the documentation)
• gettext >= 0.18.1
• 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)
• libgnutls >= 2.10.0
• libidn2 >= 0.9 + libunistring >= 0.9.3 (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)

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

Building from git

Download project and prepare sources with

    git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/wget/wget2.git
    # or from Gitlab: git clone git@gitlab.com:rockdaboot/wget2.git
    # or from Github: git clone git@github.com:rockdaboot/wget2.git
    cd wget2
    ./bootstrap

Build with

    ./configure
    make

Test the functionality

    make check

Install wget2 and libwget

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

License

Wget2 is licensed under GPLv3+.

Libwget is licensed under LGPLv3+.