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GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers, and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get. It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols.

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how to download the ssl certificate from a website?

I want to download the ssl certificate from, say https://www.google.com, using wget or any other commands. Any unix command line? wget or openssl?
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Making `wget` not save the page

I'm using the wget program, but I want it not to save the html file I'm downloading. I want it to be discarded after it is received. How do I do that?
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Is there a built-in command-line tool under Windows like wget/curl?

I come from a Linux/Unix background and I have been wondering if Windows has a binary that can download files from the console. I would like to automate a certain process and one of my requirements ...
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Piping wget output to /dev/null in cron

I am running the following command every 5 minutes in my crontab to keep Phusion Passenger alive. */5 * * * * wget mysite.com > /dev/null 2>&1 When I run this it performs a wget on the ...
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How do I pipe a downloaded file to standard output in bash?

How is it possible to pipe out wget's downloaded file? If not what alternatives should I use?
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wget to print errors, but nothing otherwise

How can I have wget print errors, but nothing otherwise? In the default behavior, it shows a progress bar and lots of stuff. In the --no-verbose version still prints one line per downloaded file, ...
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Wget a script and run it

I want to download a script from: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11210438/flockonus-stack.sh and execute it. My guess is, to use wget renaming it, chmod it, and execute. What are the commands for doing ...
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Why wget doesn't verify SSL certificates?

I have a problem with my Fedora 8 installation. It looks that wget doesn't know how to verify SSL certificates any more. It's strange because I have another Fedora 8 box which I believe has the same ...
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Wget: Is there a way to pass username and password from a file?

Is there a way to pass the username and password from a file instead of the command line via --user and --password? Background: I want to run wget via cron and don't want the username/password show ...
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Execute curl requests in parallel in bash

What is the best way to execute 5 curl requests in parallel from a bash script? I can't run them in serial for performance reasons.
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Why is only one wget command working in my crontab?

I wish to fetch content from a PHP script on my server two times a day, altering a query variable lang to set what language we want, and save this content in two language specific files. This is my ...
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How to exclude certain directories while using wget?

I'd like to download a directory from a FTP, which contains some source codes. Initially, I did this: wget -r ftp://path/to/src Unfortunately, the directory itself is a result of a SVN checkout, so ...
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Why is wget hanging?

wget to a single specific url from one of my servers keeps getting timeouts. All other urls from this box work fine. This url works OK from any other boxes I have. Here's the output: wget -T 10 http:/...
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Why the discrepancy between Speedtest and Wget?

My customer complains about low internet speeds. When measured with Speedtest.net speeds are acceptable. Periodic measured downloads are 10% to 30% of the nominal speed. I cannot explain that. Some ...
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wget starts downloading then stops "cannot write to"

I'm using wget to mirror some files across from one server to another. I'm using the following command: wget -x -N -i http://domain.com/filelist.txt -x = Because I want to keep the directory ...
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WGET can't resolve host

I've got 2 machines on the same sub-net running Debian 5.0. They use the same DNS (/etc/resolv.conf), they route to the same gateway (#route) and they have the same iptables settings (#iptables -L). ...
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How do I pipe the output of uptime/df to curl?

I want to send the output of uptime and df commands to a web app using cURL. I tried: uptime | curl http://someurl.com -T - But that didn't seem to send the data. What is the proper way to send ...
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wget recursive download, but I don't want to follow all links

I'm trying to mirror a website using wget, but I don't want to download lots of files, so I'm using wget's --reject option to not save all the files. However wget will still download all the files and ...
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Accessing a windows shared folder from Linux?

I am trying to copy a (.html) file from a Windows XP Professional shared folder onto a server running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS. As it's a shared folder the usual 'wget' doesn't seem to work. I suspect ...
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Where can I (safely) get libintl3.dll?

I am having problems running the Windows version of wget on a Windows 7 machine. When I run the command I get this error: The program can't start because libintl3.dll is missing from your computer. ...
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Using client certificates with wget

I cannot get wget to use the client certificates. The documentation speaks about using the --certificate flag. The use of the certificate flag is clear, I set it to use the PEM version of the client ...
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What to do if wget's progress:mega doen't cut it anymore?

I have script for downloading large files in a queue. Now I would really appreciate it, if I had a decent log. Specifying the -o or -a option is apparently specially made for that, however as of the ...
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How can i make wget download only pages not css images etc?

I want to download an entire website using wget but I don't want wget to download images, videos etc. I tried wget -bqre robots=off -A.html example.com –user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows ...
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wget ftp connection failing after PASV command

In attempting to transfer all files from one web server ("source") to another ("destination"), the wget command is connecting via FTP, but cannnot proceed beyond the PASV command. I'm using an SSH ...
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How to refresh an online website mirror created with `wget --mirror`?

One month ago, I used "wget --mirror" to create a mirror of our public website for temporary use during an upcoming scheduled maintenance window. Our primary website runs HTML, PHP & MySQL, but ...
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How to install wget on this?

I did download RubyStack 2.0.3 for VMWare (Ubuntu 9.10) but I cannot download anything on it! It appears that all basic utilities are missing/screwed: bitnami@linux:/var/tmp$ wget -bash: wget: ...
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curl succeeds on an https request, wget does not

When I run curl from the command line curl "https://example.com" It succeeds immediately, returning the result of the request. When I run the same wget command wget https://example.com It ...
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Wget, Curl, Yum Fail but Ping works - CentOS 5

We currently have three webservers. Servers one and two behave, but I'm having real problems with the third. wget, curl and yum all fail to make their connections - that is, they all hang after ...
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How to allow wget to overwrite files

Using wget command, how do I allow/instruct to overwrite my local file everytime, irrespective of how many times I invoke. Let's say, I want to download a file from the location: http://server/folder/...
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How to download with wget without following links with parameters

I'm trying to download two sites for inclusion on a CD: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki http://www.boinc-wiki.info The problem I'm having is that these are both wikis. So when downloading with e....
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How to serve a wget --mirror'ed directory of files with questionmarks in them

I'm trying to create a static mirror of a php application (an old php Gallery installation, specifically). The app produces URLs such as: view_album.php?set_albumName=MyAlbum wget downloads these ...
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Alternatives to CURL, WGET

Is anyone aware of any alternatives to curl and wget? The key functional requirement I'm looking for is to be able to execute an HTTPS GET request against a known URL. The reason I'm looking for an ...
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Can wget convert links within a local html document?

I know that wget can fetch a remote page and its dependencies and rewrite the html so that image src attributes reference the newly downloaded images. I am trying to convert local html files that ...
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Transfer a 30GB tar file from one remote server to another - restrained by disk space

I have a 38GB "Moodle" tar file that I need to transfer from the old server (Shared hosting), which we can call "Server A" to the new server (Dedicated virtual), or "Server B". I'm with Mediatemple if ...
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How do I fix certificate errors when running wget on an HTTPS URL in Cygwin Windows?

I have Cygwin installed in my windows system. I am trying to execute wget command for a website but I am getting the following error message: ERROR: The certificate of `example.com' is not trusted. ...
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Why does Amazon Linux 2 have older version of wget vs. Amazon Linux 1?

We noticed that wget on Amazon Linux 2 is v1.14, but on the older version of Amazon Linux, it was v1.18. Any idea why this would be? I'm fairly certain we installed from yum in both cases. Is there ...
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"Issued certificate not yet valid." with wget?

I am getting the following error when using wget to fetch a file: Issued certificate not yet valid. To connect to www.atlassian.com insecurely, use ‘--no-check-certificate’. Testing with openssl ...
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wget - specify directory and rename the file

I'm trying to download multiple files and need to rename as I download, how can I do that and specify the directory I want them to download to? I know i need to be using -P and -O to do this but it ...
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wget receives the file and hangs [closed]

I am trying to beat weird problem - wget gets the file, saves it to disk and hangs. Here is the details: wget --server-response --ca-directory=/etc/ssl/certs --no-dns-cache -T 1 --read-timeout=1 --...
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FTP file download using Wget

I am using the wget command for download FTP files, when i download the FTP file its showing error "Event not fount". Here i use the password like some below charater ! so its showing this error bash:...
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Why does curl work with a specific https site, but wget has problems with certificates?

Centos 6. After updating recently ca-certificates I run into some troubles. I have the most recent versions of curl for centos 6: -bash-4.1$ curl -V -v curl 7.19.7 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7....
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Escape a ! in the password parameter of wget

I'm trying to execute something like this: wget --user=foo --password=bar! url The ! in the password is causing problems. I've tried escaping it with \, as in --password=bar\! I've tried ...
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wget - Only save if return code is 200, delete otherwise

I have a script that checks my public ip address every few minutes. The problem is the ISP sometimes gives me cached pages (I know, I've used all the related args in wget, the isp is formed by a bunch ...
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Wrong filename encoding/decoding when downloading recursively with wget

I'm downloading files from a remote directory recursively using wget and whoever created the folders and files, used special characters such as è or Ó, when I download a single specificating the full ...
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How to download a file and preserver original permissions using wget

How can I download a file that has already executable permissions 755 in another server. I want to: wget https://example.com/pub/register.sh --no-check-certificate and preserver permission register....
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Multithreaded downloading with shell script

Let's say I have a file with lots of URLs and I want to download them in parallel using arbitrary number of processes. How can I do it with bash?
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Ubuntu 11.10, using wget/curl fails with ssl

On a completely new install of Ubuntu I'm getting the following errors when using wget: wget https://test.sagepay.com --2012-03-27 12:55:12-- https://test.sagepay.com/ Resolving test.sagepay.com... ...
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How can I get a static download link for a Microsoft MSDN Subscriber Download?

I need to be able to download MSDN ISO files directly from PowerShell. How can I do this? I can view the downloads site at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/securedownloads/ however, these ...
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Using wget to fetch password protected website (trac wiki page)

I want to write a bash script that will notify me about changes on a trac wiki timeline. Unfortunately I can't "login" (it needs cookie for next logins). wget http://someserver.com/trac/xxx/login \ --...
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wget and pretty urls

In order to automatize stuff, I need to recursively download a web page. I'm using wget as it's probably the most programmer-friendly tool available, using -r flag to trigger link following. wget, ...
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