Wget is a non-interactive utility for downloading files using the HTTPS, HTTP and FTP protocols. It can resume interrupted downloads, use file name wild cards, supports proxies and cookies, and convert absolute links in downloaded documents to relative links.
Wget is a popular tool with multiple ports/implementations for Windows.
Wget2 is being developed (see https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2).
Use cases: | download files download via ftp |
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License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
How to extract: | See parent package(s) or port(s). |
What's new? | Latest upstream changelog at http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9913. |
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Midas
on 2021-02-11 20:45
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Upstream v1.21 released 2021-01-09 (changelog at http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9913). |
busybox-w32 is a port of BusyBox to the Microsoft Windows WIN32 API. It brings a subset of the functionality of BusyBox to Windows in a single self-contained native executable.
Tools here are usually more limited than their full Unix counterparts.
Included Tools (More info under "Details" below):
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Usually None. |
License: | Most tools are open-source. A few are public domain. FOSS |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice (prefereably in your PATH folder). Launch desired tool as: busybox.exe <tool name> |
youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube and many other sites. It is very up-to-date and typically responds very quickly to changes on the YouTube website which causes trouble for other downloaders.
Use cases: | download video |
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | None |
Dependencies: | Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x86) |
Stealth: ? | Yes. Can save cache to the user's profile, see more here. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Unlicense FOSS |
How to extract: | Download youtube-dl.exe to a folder of your choice and launch. |
What's new? |
See: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/releases |
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Hangar0
on 2021-12-16 14:47
new version 2021.12.17 .. .. (https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html)
Midas
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"yt-dlp is a youtube-dl fork based on the now inactive youtube-dlc. The main focus of this project is adding new features and patches while also keeping up to date with the original project." See: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp |
Yori is a collection of tools for Windows aimimg to replace the default (CMD) shell and many built-in and other commands.
It contains the following tools:
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Runs on: | WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | MIT License FOSS |
How to extract: |
Either run the installer or: Download the CAB files and extract them into one folder (for 32-bit version, replace "amd64" with "win32"): http://www.malsmith.net/download/?obj=yori/latest-stable/yori-core-amd64.cab http://www.malsmith.net/download/?obj=yori/latest-stable/yori-typical-amd64.cab http://www.malsmith.net/download/?obj=yori/latest-stable/yori-extra-amd64.cab |
What's new? |
See: http://malsmith.net/yori/changelog/ |
curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP). The command is designed to work without user interaction. curl offers proxy support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, SSL connections, cookies, file transfer resume, Metalink, and more.
Use cases: | download files download via ftp upload files upload via ftp |
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License: | Freeware/Open Source FOSS |
What's new? | Full changelog at https://curl.se/changes.html. |