Available Flags

• -B : Download in background
• -O [string] : Output filename
• -P [string] : Directory to save files
• -i [string] : File containing URLs to download
• -max-concurrent [int] : Maximum concurrent downloads (default 5)
• -rate-limit [string] : Rate limit (e.g., 200k, 2M)
• -mirror : Mirror website
  • -R [string] : Comma-separated file extensions to reject
  • -X [string] : Comma-separated paths to exclude
  • -convert-links [string] : Make files point to downloaded resources

Usage Examples

• Basic examples:

# Build Go binary
go build -o wget main.go

# Simple file download
./wget https://example.com/index.html

# File download with custom filename
./wget -O homepage.html https://example.com/index.html

# JSON download with custom name
./wget -O data.json https://httpbin.org/json

# Download to specific directory
mkdir downloads
./wget -P downloads https://httpbin.org/xml

# Multiple files download
echo -e "https://example.com/index.html\nhttps://httpbin.org/xml" > urls.txt
./wget -i urls.txt

# Test 404 page
./wget https://example.com/notfound.html

# Test invalid URL
./wget htt://invalid-url

• Advanced examples:

Chek test files written in shell 🙂

Reliable Test URLs

• https://httpbin.org/robots.txt - Small text file
• https://httpbin.org/json - JSON response
• https://httpbin.org/xml - XML response
• https://httpbin.org/html - HTML page
• https://httpbin.org/image/png - Small PNG image
• https://www.google.com/robots.txt - Google's robots.txt
• https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1 - JSON API