wget for Mac OS X Leopard

July 30th, 2008

Three years ago I compiled a version of the ‘wget’ utility so that it would run under Mac OS X and uploaded it to Status-Q. It’s had an amazing number of downloads, and I felt it was probably time to update it!

So here is a shiny new wget.zip, which contains the following:

  • the wget binary
  • the wget.1 man page
  • the default wgetrc configuration file
  • A README file telling you a bit more.

The main changes from the original version are:

  • it’s a universal binary
  • it’s the latest version of wget (1.11.4)
  • it’s compiled on 10.5.4 and may possibly not work on older versions - please let me know in the comments if it does!

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12 Responses to “wget for Mac OS X Leopard”

  1. qsf Says:

    Most people know the simple use of wget:

    wget [url]

    to download whatever’s at [url]

    But Jeff Veen’s post gives a nice example of just how powerful it can be…
    http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000573.html

  2. Phil Miesle Says:

    It does not work on 10.4.11. Error message recieved is:


    $ wget
    dyld: Symbol not found: _fnmatch$UNIX2003
    Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wget
    Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

    Trace/BPT trap

    Guess I’ll have to run this over on my Leopard machine…

  3. Brian Says:

    Thanks for the download. (I suppose the traffic will be high today because there are all kinds of links to your site going on right now.)

  4. liquidparallax Says:

    Newb alert! Everything installed OK, but I can’t seem to find a way to create an executable script to call wget commands in mac. I could do a batch script for wget in windows, but I’m blind on my new mac.

    I tried to have Automator do this but no luck:
    do shell script “wget htttp://thisismydesiredurl.com”

    Terminal responds to manually typing in “wget htttp://thisismydesiredurl.com”, but I am in search of a way to launch the command via GUI/Finder as AppleScript or clickable file. What am I missing?

  5. gregory Says:

    Awesome! thanks for porting this over to mac

  6. Tedi Says:

    Great job! thanks :)

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  8. Nazmul Hassan Says:

    Thanks!

  9. Snoop1990 Says:

    Thank you for sharing this distribution of the wget code for mac os X

    Regards Snoop1990

  10. Nick Sargeant Says:

    Have the same issue with Tiger -

    dyld: Symbol not found: _fnmatch$UNIX2003
    Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/wget
    Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib

    for those of us who aren’t going to move to Leopard in the very near .. (might do just to get wget working hah!) would it be possible to provide a patch?

  11. qsf Says:

    Nick - a quick note - my previous binary will work fine on all versions of Mac OS X - see the link to ‘the original version’ above.

    I’m afraid I can’t easily build an up-to-date version for older versions of OS X at present, but I’ll try and get my hand on an older machine, or a disk on which I can install an older version, at some point!

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