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Wget is a computer program that implements simple and powerful content retrieval from web servers and is part of the GNU Project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get, connotative of its primary function. It currently supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, the most popular TCP/IP-based protocols used for web browsing.

Pre-built for OS X 10.4 and higher
Download from http://andrew.merenbach.com/?q=node/17

Compiling wget for OS X
Requires that you have the OS X Developer Tools installed.
Instructions from http://radio.javaranch.com/bear/2005/03/02/1109829480523.html
There's also instructions for building it from CVS.

Download the source:

curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-latest.tar.gz
tar zxf wget-latest.tar.gz
cd wget-<version>

Configure and build it:

./configure
make

Install the binaries:

sudo make install

You'll likely need to add /usr/local/bin to your shell $PATH in order to use the programs

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