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Learn Wget - Prerequisite Skills & Environment Setup
Before downloading your first file, there are a few basic skills and tools you need to prepare: comfortable navigation in the terminal, an understanding of HTTP and networking fundamentals, and confirmation that GNU Wget 1.25.x is installed and ready to use in your own environment.
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Learn Wget - History, Background & Why You Need Wget
Tracing wget's journey from its early beginnings as Geturl, written by Hrvoje Niksic in 1996, to becoming the de-facto standard non-interactive downloader for over 25 years, and understanding the real problems it solves in the DevOps world.
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Learn Wget - Core Concepts & Main Architecture
Dissecting wget's non-interactive model: the complete flow from URL parsing, DNS resolution, and TLS connection, to writing files to disk, plus the role of wgetrc, robots.txt, exit codes, and controlling log output.
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Learn Wget - Basic File Download
Running your first file download: saving files with the name from the URL, renaming with -O, streaming output to stdout with -O -, and controlling the progress bar and logs with -q, -nv, and -a.
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Learn Wget - Resume, Retry & Download Control
Handling interrupted downloads: resuming them with -c, configuring retries with --tries, controlling timeouts and transfer speed, and running downloads in the background with -b.
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Learn Wget - Batch Download & Multiple Files
Downloading many files at once from a URL list: file input with -i, setting the destination directory with -P and -x, and using the file name from server headers with --content-disposition.
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Learn Wget - FTP & File Transfer
Downloading files from FTP and FTPS servers with wget, authenticating via --user and --password, recursively downloading whole directories, and wildcard globbing that only applies to FTP, not HTTP.
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Learn Wget - HTTP Requests, Headers & Cookies
Shaping HTTP requests the way you want: custom headers, a replaceable User-Agent, sending POST data, and managing cookies and Basic Auth to access content that requires login.
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Learn Wget - Configuration & wgetrc
Storing wget's default policies in a configuration file: global and per-user locations, option syntax, priority over the command line, and dynamic configuration execution with -e at runtime.
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Learn Wget - Recursive Download & Spider
Crawling inside a site with recursive download, controlling depth and directory limits, respecting robots.txt, and using spider mode to check link availability without downloading content.
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