Author: Mohan Ganesan
Date: Jan 9, 2024
Wget is a powerful command-line utility for downloading content from the web. This article explores how to use Wget in Python scripts, either through the Wget module or by calling the Wget command via subprocess. Wget offers features like recursive downloading, resuming broken downloads, customizing user agent strings, speed throttling options, and flexible filtering. Python's subprocess module allows for more configurability, but introduces more complexity. Overall, Python and Wget are a great combination for web scraping and automation tasks.
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