Terminal Downloaders

Downloaders fetch files over HTTP, FTP, BitTorrent and other protocols from the command line, which is how data reaches a remote machine that has no browser on it.

 

The category covers general purpose clients such as curl and wget, download managers that resume and parallelize large transfers, site and gallery mirrors that archive a page along with its assets, media downloaders for video and audio, and release fetchers that pull a binary straight out of a GitHub release. Most run unattended from a script or a scheduler and pick up where they stopped after a dropped connection.

 

Below is a list of terminal tools that download files.