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GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, Cron jobs, terminals without X Window System (X11) support, etc.

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Openssl is unable to establish SSL connection, when I try to access a local site through third party tools like wget

I want to monitor the index of a site periodically on our local network out of browsers. I tried to download it by wget in Windows10: > wget --no-check-certificate --no-hsts --content-on-error --...
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wget decides not to load because of black list

I'm trying to make a full copy of a web site; e.g., http://vfilesarchive.bgmod.com/files/ I'm running wget -r -level=inf -R "index.html*" --debug http://vfilesarchive.bgmod.com/files/ and getting,...
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wget: Not able to get a folder from ftp server using wget

I need to download an FTP package through linux, but it is not proceeding after this. wget -r --no-passive-ftp --no-parent ftp://ftp.geology.wisc.edu/thurber --2019-01-16 21:06:50-- ftp://ftp....
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recursively wget in specific folder

I'm trying to get files from HTTP using wget command. I need every file in: http://9.9.9.9/a/b/c/d/ which is not a directory. I was trying it by: -A log,html,tgz,zip,txt,css,js In addition, ...
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Using Wget to Download a File From a Page That Uses Redirection To Initialize Download

I was writing a script with wget that tried to download the latest version of blender available on blenders home page to try to automate downloading the latest version. I ran into a problem with wget ...
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how to send XML file to web server using wget command from unix shell script

I am trying to send an xml file to webserver using wget command in unix as below wget --post-file xyz.xml http:// i am getting 400 bad request error,please help me
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Download css, js , images of website as mentioned in view page source

I downloaded source code of this page using below command : wget -E -H -k -K -p https://www.greetingsisland.com/design/invitations/surrealism-balloons/201-14150 Issue : but it downloaded all css,...
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gnutls_handshake() failed: Error in the pull function

I have a problem with my Ubuntu (Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS) server. It is very strange. When I try to use any tool for fetching a specific URL over ssl it fails. Examples: CURL curl -v https://www.netonnet....
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wget/curl do not write to file until download is completed

I am trying to run wget/curl every few seconds to cache a HTTP file that is constantly changing (dynamically generated file, different on each HTTP request). origin fetch is a bit slow (~10s) and ...
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ca-certificates is broken or not fully installed

Running sudo wget -O ruby-install-0.7.0.tar.gz https://github.com/postmodern/ruby-install/archive/v0.7.0.tar.gz I get the message ERROR: cannot verify github.com's certificate, issued by ‘CN=...
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How to avoid wget hanging

I use a gsm modem to download image files sent to it via mms. From my debian box at home it works with no problem. However, whenever I try it from my deban box at my office I get: wget -d -r --tries=...
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Different download tools result in different MP3 checksums [closed]

I wrote some code for downloading podcasts and noticed that the checksums of files I downloaded with it didn't match those of files downloaded using other methods. Initially I thought there was a bug ...
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How to force wget to download a directory from Dropbox

I tried downloading a dropbox directory using the following command. wget -O reads -r "https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1eqzxexmei28ihx/AAAnjVNqUl8MJFH51j9PILf-a?dl=1 It downloads, but the result is a ...
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How to only download files beginning with a certain range of numbers?

I'm trying to download files from a numbered list on a website. The list goes up to 6179 items, but I want to start the download from item 4852. I've tried the command: wget -m -np -c -A "*[4852-...
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Resume wget after canceled

I am coping a website and ^c canceled it and if I resume, it does the entire thing over again but does not copy it over because of the exiing dirs. I would like to resume the wget -r copy and ignore ...
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who uses ~/.wget-hsts file except wget or which software starts wget from inside?

I didn't use wget for a long time, but some days ago I've found, someone modified ~/.wget-hsts in the last hour. Have you got any idea, which linux (ubuntu 16.04) software starts wget without any ...
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How to fetch files by mime type with wget

Some URLs are like this: /foo/bar In that, they don't have an extension like this: /foo/bar.txt If there is an extension it's easy: wget -r -A .txt http://asdf.com But if there isn't, then I'm ...
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Issues parsing a log file in the PowerShell pipeline

(new-object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('http://192.168.100.1/cgi-bin/status_cgi','C:\file.txt') retrieves the status page from an Arris Modem. select-string -Path "C:\file.txt" -pattern "...
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How do I not download certain websites with wget?

What I'm currently doing right now is wget www.example.com -m --warc-file="example.com" which works fine for most sites, but for this particular site that I'm saving, there are over a thousand ...
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Re-running a command prompt after termination

I'm currently using wget to download off of an archive, but after about 20 minutes, it terminates itself without downloading the rest of the files. However, every time I launch it, it manages to get ...
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wget for accuweather.com doesn't work since yesterday

I used to collect data automatically from accuweather.com for my personal use with wget. Since yesterday they changed the web-site and introduced pop-up window, asking for your consent for adds or ...
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Recursively download files from a website using wget

I want to download a set o files from a website. The HTML documents are linked with <a href="https://website.com/path/to/folder/jjxx.70" data-linktype="relative-path">bla</a> after the ...
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Is there any command line tool that can be used to save the whole webpage to read in offline mode later?

When reading a webpage in Firefox/Chrome, one can press Ctrl+S to download the webpage with its contents (including CSS, JavaScript, images, etc...) for reading it offline later. I wonder if there is ...
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curl and wget not working with https sites after upgrade to ubuntu 18.04.1

Seems to be a openssl related issue. Anyone have any ideas as to what this is? Note that the url works in a browser. With wget: # wget -d https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x DEBUG output created ...
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ftp files via intermediate jump-server

In my company we access our remote electronic devices through a jump server. When we need to download files from the devices we do the following: ssh jump.server.com wget ftp//device_ip/filepath (...
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Prevent curl from removing "../" from queried URL?

Prevent wget or curl from removing "../" from queried URL? The following wget query using ../ to directory traverse: wget http://192.168.0.24:7002/../../../../../mydir/myfile.txt results in the ...
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Making wget's --convert-links respect http vs https

I'm using the following command to mirror an https website: wget --directory-prefix=/tmp/mirror --mirror --no-host-directories \ --regex-type pcre --reject-regex "$SKIP_REGEXP" \ --convert-...
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Can't make wget to continue downloading a file

I am trying to download a big file using wget (4.5 GB). My OS is ubuntu 18.04 LTS So what did I do? First I went to the folder, in which I want the file to be downloaded. Then I used the following ...
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Wget without getting off the domain being read

Linux centos 6-64 What should I add to wget for it only to read the links on the domain requested and not go to other domains mention inside the site being downloaded? Ex: while mirroring site1.com ...
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wget doesn't find a existing file (ftp)

I have proftpd on my server. I'm not totally sure its config is perfect, but something I can't understand : $ LC_ALL=en ls -l useradd.LDAP.tar.gz ls: cannot access 'useradd.LDAP.tar.gz': No such file ...
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wget recursive downloads only index file

I followed one of the answers provided in in this post to download a blog's posts, and only that, no external links, but the recursive feature does not seem to work, as only the index file is ...
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Wget Specify Sub directories to Download (-I)

I have just started using wget and am able to download and specify location to save files in, but I am having issues when I try to limit my download to portions of the main directory. If I do not ...
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How to control the size of data I get when making a HTTP POST request with wget?

I am trying to automate a login to a website by replicating the HTTP POST request with wget. I don't really need the response data, not to mention that waiting for all of it increases the execution ...
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curl / wget is adding an extra ^M when I append data to a file

Something is buzzing me about this. I'm trying to download two different hosts files into one, if I do this serperatly then everything is fine, but when I append the firs to the second a strange ...
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Use wget to download all linked mp3 files from website

I'm trying to use wget to download the mp3 files from https://musicforprogramming.net/ . As you can see, there is a link to each track page (e.g. https://musicforprogramming.net/?twentythree) from the ...
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Get connection speed of a program with netstat

I use netstat -natpe to view the connections and program names. While wget is fetching data, the RX column is zero naderan@student-virtual-machine:~$ netstat -natpe (Not all processes could be ...
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wget without keeping the cache

I'm trying to run a remote bash script hosted on github: wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xxxxx/script.sh All works good, no problems But when I update the script above, and I run the ...
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how to download the full WET archive from Common Crawl?

I am interested in the WET archives for the latest april 2018 crawl (http://commoncrawl.org/2018/05/april-2018-crawl-archive-now-available/) Is it possible to download the full WET archive at once? I ...
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Wget not working as expected

wget -nd -a pdf -o drgnchain.pdf https://dragonchain.com/assets/Dragonchain_Business_Summary.pdf I would expect the downloaded PDF to be named drgnchain.pdf and be the sole file after executing this ...
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Read error near the end of a file I'm downloading - what's at fault?

I'm trying to download the updated firmware for some device (it's a Belkin Network Exentder, but that's inconsequential). I manage to get to 97% of it, seeing: $ wget -c --verbose http://networking....
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wget - N always redownloads file even if timestemp does not change

I found this site on how to download files, of which the timestamp did change: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Time_002dStamping-Usage.html I tried it out but wget always keeps on ...
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WGET: Is it possible to automatically RESUME the download of an HTTP URL?

I use cron jobs to execute shell scripts which are very simple invocations of wget. Here's one such example: #!/bin/sh fileName="WRTI-"$(date +"%m-%d-%Y-%H%M") directory=/volume1/multimedia/Internet\ ...
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How can I download a large Google Takeout file in parts on Windows 10?

I requested a Google data takeout in 2GB chunks. However, while most of the files (22/23) are <=2GB, one is over 30GB. I don't know why this is the case, and I don't know what's in it and why it's ...
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How to Wget login on this website

I am trying to wget postdata login on this website using the following command but something is missing: wget --no-check-certificate --save-cookies cookies.txt --keep-session-cookies --post-data "...
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wget is not downloading files from subdomains

I want to download pdf files from a domain. some files are hosted on the subdomain. How could I make wget download from subdomains? Ex: i am trying to download files from this website, where files ...
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How can I download a file from Wine CMD on Fedora?

Note: This is simillar to the question here: Wine: How to download a file from CMD? however, I was not able to use or understand the answer provided. I need to be able to donwload a file from within a ...
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How do I translate the following "for /f" command from cmd for an equivalent command in Linux centos 6,64?

How could I translate the following CMD command to a command in linux centos 6,64? for /f "tokens=1*" %i in (links.txt) do wget -O "%j" "%i" PS: links.txt is a file with 2 columns separated by tab, ...
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wget FTP: how to recursively download a whole directory WITHOUT .listing files?

I want to download a whole directory from my FTP server, and it can be done by using wget with -m option. wget -m --ftp-user=aaaa --ftp-password=bbbb ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/dir However, I noticed ...
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Use wget to download file above specific size

I'm using wget to download images from a friend website. However I would like to download only files which size is above 1MB. How can I achieve this ?
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Flashgot No Longer Compatible With Firefox Quantum (57)...Any Fix?

For previous versions of Firefox and Chrome even, life was seamlessly smooth about my cozy style of having Wget and Curl intercept downloads in my browsers with a flashgot extension installed. But all ...
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