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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: Wget

We spotlight alternatives tools to Wget, a non-interactive network downloader.

HTTPie (pronounced aych-tee-tee-pie) is a command line HTTP client. It is a a command line interface, cURL-like tool for humans.

aria2 is a utility for downloading files.It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP/SFTP and BitTorrent at the same time.

Wget2 is a utility for non-interactive download of files. It supports HTTP and HTTPS protocols, and retrieval through HTTP(S) proxies.

cURL is a command line tool and library for transferring data with URLs. There’s also libcurl, a client-side URL transfer library.

Curlie is a frontend to curl that adds the ease of use of httpie, without compromising on features and performance.

Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format.

xh is a friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests. It reimplements as much as possible of HTTPie’s excellent design.