Wget For Mac Os X Download

This is driving me nuts.. Whenever I try to use wget for some sort of mirroring type recursive download, it just downloads the specified url and quits if I give it ANY arguments with comma separated lists. If I don't give it any lists, it works, but since I couldn't give it a list, it doesn't do what I want. I even suspected a bug with version 1.5.3 (which is included with OS X,) so I downloaded version 1.6 and compiled it. I still didn't have any luck. Can some wget expert point me in the right direction? What am I doing wrong?
I often need to download files using the Terminal. However, I am unable to find the wget command on OS X. How do download files from the web via the Mac OS X bash command line option?

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You need to use a tool (command) called curl. It is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the following supported protocols

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  1. FTP
  2. HTTP
  3. HTTPS
  4. FTPS
  5. POP3
  6. SFTP
  7. SMTPS
  8. SMTP and more.

This command is designed to work without user interaction.

curl command syntax

The syntax is:

Examples

Open the Terminal and then type the following command to grab “Mastering vim” in pdf format from www.cyberciti.biz server:

Sample outputs:
The -o option write output to a file called mastering-vim.pdf instead of screen. You can skip the -o option and use the -O (capital letter O) to write (save) output to a local file named like the remote file we get. Only the file part of the remote file is used, the path is cut off:

How do I specify multiple URLs or parts of URLs?

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The syntax is: Os x lion download.

You can get sequences of alphanumeric series by using []. In this example, grab invoices-1.pdf, invoices-2.pdf, …, invoices-1000.pdf using curl command:

You can grab urls with leading zeros as follows:

You can combine various techniques to build complex download url structure as follows:

You can set a step counter for the ranges to get every Nth number or letter:

Displaying a progress bar

You can force curl to show progress as a simple progress bar instead of the standard, more informational, meter:

Sample outputs:

Dealing with url redirection

The following is recommended syntax for servers that may do http redirect before downloading files. Other servers may hide actual download file names.

Consider the following filezilla download url from sourceforge foss hosting platform:

To avoid problems, use the following syntax:

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Sample outputs:

Save bandwidth

You can pass the --compressed option to http based urls to request a compressed response using one of the algorithms curl supports, and save the uncompressed document. If this option is used and the server sends an unsupported encoding, curl will report an error:

Download a file using username and password

The syntax is:

Security alert: Anything (username/password) done over HTTP/FTP is completely open to interception. Do not pass username/passwords using ftp/http protocols.

For

Check out our previous video tutorial on curl command for more information:

(Video 01: curl Command Line Download Examples For FTP / HTTP Protocols)
Recommended readings
  • More – Linux / Unix: curl Command Download File Examples
  • See curl command man page for more information.

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