Command-line tool

wget2

brew/wget2

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Successor of GNU Wget, a file and recursive website downloader cross-platform downloader open-source media-downloader file-downlaoder wget

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Command-line tool

Install on

Windows, macOS, Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Windows

winget install --id GNU.Wget2 -e
scoop install wget2

macOS

brew install wget2

Linux

brew install wget2

Download the contents of a URL to a file using multiple threads (default behavior differs from `wget`)

wget2 https://example.com/resource

Limit the number of threads used for downloading (default is 5 threads)

wget2 --max-threads 10 https://example.com/resource

Download a single web page and all its resources (scripts, stylesheets, images, etc.)

wget2 -p -k https://example.com/somepage.html

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