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Browsertrix Crawler vs GNU Wget2: catalog facts
Browsertrix Crawler	GNU Wget2
Free Free to use; the source is published on GitHub by Webrecorder.	Free Free and open source under the GPL.
Command line	macOS, Linux, Command line
Captures pages through a real browser rather than raw HTML Writes standard WARC and WACZ archive files	Parallel connections and HTTP/2 make recursive mirroring much faster Keeps Wget's command line, so existing habits carry over
Aimed at technical users rather than casual downloading Output needs a web archive viewer to replay	Not a complete drop-in replacement; some Wget options are missing Packaged separately from wget, so it is not installed by default
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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