macOS Mojave, Sierra, and earlier versions come with the command line utility called ‘curl‘ which is a network transfer tool, it does not come with the popular ‘wget‘, in fact, ‘curl‘ can probably get you by just fine, check man curl at the command line to see its usage.
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. GNU Wget (or just Wget, formerly Geturl, also written as its package name, wget) is a computer program that retrieves content from web servers.It is part of the GNU Project.Its name derives from World Wide Web and get.It supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP. Its features include recursive download, conversion of links for offline viewing of local HTML, and support for proxies.
Otherwise, let's look at getting ‘wget‘… this can be done in 3 ways.
1 – Install as Point and Click
Download and run the package from Rudix
2 – Compile from Source
To add and install wget to your system you need to download the source files, compile the code and make an install. To compile the code you need a compiler, unfortunately, it doesn't come with macOS by default you need to install the free Xcode suite from Apple which includes the GCC compiler. This process also works exactly the same in previous macOS and OSX versions.
Get Xcode
Get the latest via Xcode via iTunes.
Wget For Mac Os
Next you need to install the Xcode command line tools, easiest way to do so by running in the Terminal:
Using curl to get wget
Get the latest wget source code from the ftp repository, or using curl from the command line:
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Extract it and move into it
Configure and Install it
an error may occur on SSL…
wget needs to have some type of SSL support GNUTLS is most probably not available on your OS X system – if so use OpenSSL in the configure as an alternative use so re-run the configure with an SSL flag:
That's it done, wget will be installed in:
Download Wget For Mac
Clean Up
Remove the source code and compressed file:
Test wget
Everything should work out fine – if you need to install more Unix style tools it will be faster and better to install a Package Manager for OSX like Homebrew – it makes installing and maintaining these applications so easy,
3 – Install from HomeBrew
Wget For Mac Terminal
Terminal
Hey
I like using Terminal, it is usually much more efficient and a lot quicker then the normal methods you use on your Mac. 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. When I tried curl on my computer it threw up lots of errors and problems. This post will tell you how to install wget and some simple basic usage. It is simple to do and really doesn't take that long. I can't take full credit for this tip, I took some of the steps from asitis.
The first step is to download the source code. Head over to the offical site and download the code directly. Once as you have downloaded the package unzip it. There will be a lots of funky files and folders. Thankfully we don't have to deal with any of them. Open up Terminal and navigate to the folder wget is extracted in. For example:
cd ~/desktop/temp/wget-1.9.1
We know need to configure the package for your computer and install it. This is done slightly differently to normal packages and folders you may experience. In Terminal again type the following:
./configure
This will configure the packages and files for your computer. Then type:
make
This will make the files into a single binary file for use on your computer. Finally type:
sudo make install
This will copy the binary file into the correct location on your computer. Since the folder wget will copy into is a protected system folder, you will have to use the sudo command and an administrator password.
You have successfully installed wget. For example you can use wget to download zip files using the following command in Terminal.
wget http://www.file.com/location/file.zip
Wget is designed to download files and web pages in Terminal but it can do a whole lot more. For some reason the link to the man page does not seem to work. So you can visit this URL instead.
You can do hundreds of different things with wget. It really is quite powerful and very easy to use. I recommend reading the man page to find out how to use it. You probably wont use it every day, but for anyone who likes using Terminal, or wants to play around with some more Unix commands, wget is a very fun one to use. If I remember correctly there was an old joke where you type 'wget *.*' to download the entire internet.
If you want to take your skills with Terminal a bit further I recommend you check out the Terminal Category on this site. If you fancy reading a book there is a couple on Amazon that I regularly see mentioned and recommend, O'reilly Unix Geeks and Unix Under the Hood both are designed for Mac OS X and take Terminal further.
Wget For Mac Os X
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