Supported Operating Systems | WGet | WebWhacker(1) | GetURL | Web G.R.A.B. | WWWGrab | WebMirror | Templeton |
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OS/2 | Yes | Win-OS/2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Windows 3.1 | Portable | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Windows95 | Portable | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Under development |
Linux | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
SunOS/Solaris | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Other Unix Variances | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Retrieval | WGet | WebWhacker | GetURL | Web G.R.A.B. | WWWGrab | WebMirror | Templeton |
Retrieved Format | Files | Files | Files | Files | Files | local database | Files |
Link rewriting | Yes (Optional) | Yes | No | No | Yes | N/A | Yes |
Automatic Retrieval | Yes | Yes | No | Yes(2) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Image Retrieval | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes(3) | Yes | Yes |
ImageMap Retrieval | No | No | No | No | No | CERN and NCSA formats only | CERN and NCSA formats only |
Java Applet and Object Retrieval | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Long filename support | Yes | Win95 only | Yes | Yes | Yes | N/A | Yes |
Converts to FAT if required | No | No | No | No | No | N/A | Yes |
Only update newer files | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
File case format | Mixed-only | Mixed-only | Manual(6) | Manual(6) | Mixed-only | N/A | Upper, lower, or mixed |
Run other applications on the retrieved files | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Maximum retrieval attempts | Configurable | 1 | 1 | 1 | Configurable | 1 | 1 |
Restrictions | WGet | WebWhacker | GetURL | Web G.R.A.B. | WWWGrab | WebMirror | Templeton |
Depth restriction | Yes | Yes | Only retrieves 1 document | Depth of 0 or 1 only | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Host restriction | Yes | Yes | N/A | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Path restriction | Yes | Yes | N/A | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Domain restriction | Yes | No | N/A | No | No | No | Yes |
Stop-time specification | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Run-time restriction | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Custom restrictions | Yes | No | N/A | No | No | No | Yes |
Robot exclusion | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Logging | WGet | WebWhacker | GetURL | Web G.R.A.B. | WWWGrab | WebMirror | Templeton |
Log files | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Remote server mapping | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Server identification | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Log errors | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Network | WGet | WebWhacker | GetURL | Web G.R.A.B. | WWWGrab | WebMirror | Templeton |
Spoofing | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Proxy support | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Proxy authentication | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Password support | Basic(4) | No | No | No | Basic | No | Basic |
Variable sleep durations | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
Supported protocols | HTTP, FTP | HTTP | HTTP, NNTP, Gopher, FTP | HTTP | HTTP | HTTP | HTTP |
DNS name resolution | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Other features | WGet | WebWhacker | GetURL | Web G.R.A.B. | WWWGrab | WebMirror | Templeton |
Generate mailing lists | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
User additions while retrieving | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
HTML corrections | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes |
Interactive | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Usable from scripts | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Graphical interface | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
Documentation Availability | WGet | WebWhacker | GetURL | Web G.R.A.B. | WWWGrab | WebMirror | Templeton |
Format | Unix man page, Unix info(5) | MS Word | Text file | Text & HTML | Text file | OS/2 INF | HTML |
Readability | Detailed | Detailed | Brief | Brief | Brief | Brief | Detailed |
On-line | Yes: man page | Yes: WinHelp | None | None | None | No | Yes: Web browser & limited built-in |
Documentation Content | WGet | WebWhacker | GetURL | Web G.R.A.B. | WWWGrab | WebMirror | Templeton |
Table of Contents | Yes(5) | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
Index | Yes(5) | Yes | No | No | No | No, but searchable | No |
Description | Detailed | Detailed | Brief | Brief | Brief | Brief | Detailed |
Configuration | Detailed | Detailed | Brief | Brief | Summary | Brief | Detailed |
Examples | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
Languages | English | English | English | English | English & Czech | English | English |
(1) Comparison with WebWhacker is based on documentation only.
(2) Although the documentation says Web G.R.A.B. supports this feature, we could not get it to work.
(3) WWWGrab does not retrieve images generated by CGI calls.
(4) Only one (1) username and password allowed in WGet.
(5) The Index and Table of Contents for WGet's documentation are only available in info and postscript. The distribution does not contain the postscript documentation, but source code and a makefile are available for generating it.
(6) The user must specify the file name.