Usages of "wget" command in Linux

Wget, IMO, is the best download manager application I've ever seen for Linux operating system. Apart from the normal usages of wget, there are so many cool usages which can become real handy!

Resume Downloads:

# wget -c download_link

Download in background:

# wget -b download_link

Limit the bandwidth usage:

# wget --limit-rate=10k download_link

This will make wget download the file at a maximum speed of 10Kbps. This can be handy when downloading in background and there are other applications that needs Internet usage.

Download from websites having authentication:

# wget --username=username --password=password download_link

Download from an FTP server that requires authentication:

# wget --ftp-user=username --ftp-password=password download_link

Download a website completely (recursively):

# wget -r website_link

Download a website completely (recursively) up to a certain level:

# wget -r -l 5 website_link

Download up to 5 levels from the website directory. Please make sure you have enough disk space before attempting to download like this.

Download a website and convert the links relative to the local system to make it available for offline use:

# wget --convert-links -r website_link

Torn ON mirroring:

# wget --mirror download_link

Download an HTML page along with its page requisites:

This helps to download a web page (HTML) along with the requirements of that page such as images, sounds, style sheets etc.

# wget --page-requisites download_link

Download Securely from HTTPS sites:

wget --secure-protocol=protocol_name download_link

Valid options for Protocol names are "auto", "SSLv2", "SSLv3", and "TLSv1". The option "auto" can be used if you dont want to specify the protocol to be used.

And.. yes.. that's not all.. there are so many other options for the wget command. Refer its manual pages for more details.. If I find anything more interesting, I will make sure I post it here :-)