This post is about one widely used tool on UNIX and Linux systems, wget. Wget is a small program that can download files and folders to your computer through Terminal. There is already program similar to wget on your Mac, it is called curl. Although they do the same task, I prefer wget. Wget, from the Free Software Foundation's Wget home page, is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc. GNU Wget has many features to make. Wget is a very useful tool and is used for downloading installation files among other stuff; it ought to be there on your Mac. Getting wget on Mac OS X is pretty easy, so worry not. Just follow my instructions. Before that make sure you have a C/C compiler on your system, if you have XCode, you are all set and ready.
Wget can be instructed to convert the links in downloaded files to point at the local files, for offline viewing. Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. Wget is a small program that can download files and folders to your computer through Terminal. There is already program similar to wget on your Mac, it is called curl. Although they do the same task, I prefer wget.
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How to install wget on your Mac#
Ok, so Mac is cool and stuff, but it doesn't come with
wget
by default, which in my opinion sucks. wget
is a very useful tool and is used for downloading installation files among other stuff; it ought to be there on your Mac.Getting
wget
on Mac OS X is pretty easy, so worry not. Just follow my instructions. Before that make sure you have a C/C++ compiler on your system, if you have XCode, you are all set and ready.The first step, of course, is downloading the
wget
source code. We'll have to use our browser to download that since we don't have wget
yet. Get the wget
source from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/, scroll down for the latest version. The latest version as of writing this post is wget-1.13.tar.gz.Wget For Mac Os
Once you have downloaded the source, unarchive it using Archive Utility (just double-click the downloaded file to get a new folder which looks like
wget-1.13
). Now open a terminal, cd
to wget-1.13
directory, and do the following:There you! Now you have
wget
installed on your Mac. Confirm it this way.I know Apple wants me to use iCloud. https://yellowcheck422.weebly.com/blog/western-digital-my-passport-for-mac. Did I write that out loud?doublepost=/doublepost.and when I can afford to go that route, I'm definitely going to hop aboard the SSD train for externals. I bet this doesn't happen on PC hardware with Windows.
Did
wget
fail to install because of some dependencies? Maybe you wanna go a less hardcore but very easy way, and manage all the packages on your system using Homebrew instead. Installing wget using Homebrew is as easy as doing this:Homebrew is highly recommended for managing the UNIX packages on your Mac. I could have straightaway told you the Homebrew way but you'd have missed some valuable lessons if I did. The instructions for installing Homebrew can be found here. Get it!
Three years ago I compiled a version of the ‘wget’ utility so that it would run under Mac OS X and uploaded it to Status-Q. It’s had an amazing number of downloads, and I felt it was probably time to update it!
Wget For Mac El Capitan
So here is a shiny new wget.zip, which contains the following:
- the wget binary
- the wget.1 man page
- the default wgetrc configuration file
- A README file telling you a bit more.
The main changes from the original version are:
- it’s a universal binary
- it’s the latest version of wget (1.11.4)
- it’s compiled on 10.5.4 and may possibly not work on older versions – please let me know in the comments if it does!
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