How to Use Wget to Retrieve Web Pages

Wget is a utility provided free of charge by GNU. It is extremely popular because it is very easy to use and can work in the background while the user is doing other work--or not present at all.

Use Wget to Retrieve Web Pages

Step1 Save time. Wget is a quick and easy way to retrieve web pages and other remote files that can then be used to aid in many of the most common administrative tasks used by businesses today. Wget can be used to automate tasks that would otherwise be very time-consuming for employees.

Step2 Increase security of your own website. See where people are going and where they're coming from in order to bolster the security of your site and to find new ways to improve customer satisfaction.

Step3 Use Wget for its convenience factor. Access remotes and download entire web sites on both FTP and Web servers.

Step4 Use it because everyone else is using it. This is another type of convenience. Wget is extremely popular because it is an open source and practically anybody can use it.

Use Wget for Recursive Downloads of Remote Files and Web Pages

Step1 Let Wget work while you're not. The Wget utility does not require that a user be logged on while it is retrieving files and web pages. You can simply start the file retrieval process and then leave it unattended. You can even log out of the system. Wget will continue to retrieve data even if you're not there.

Step2 Convert downloaded files into compatible files so they can be viewed when you're offline.

Step3 Use Wget when your system experiences instability. Even if a download is aborted or fails, Wget will resume downloading from where the failure occured until the download is fully complete.

Step4 Learn the basic command options for Wget. Use '-r' or '--recursive' to begin recursive downloading. Use '-o' for the logfile. Use '-t' to set the number of tries for downloading. Set 0 for t and Wget will try infinitely many times until full downloading has been accomplished.

Step5 Look how easy it is to download a web site. You would enter "wget http://abc.def.ghi.jk/"
It's that simple.
Step6Learn more about Wget from Wget's website (see Resources below).